http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4098





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-26-06 21:34 -------
I suspect the solution goes a little deeper than that, since I can imagine
questions like:

1. What's the interaction between pre/post/preun/postun when updating package to
new version? In %preun of new package, the new schemas file has already
overwritten old schemas file, but the new one may or may not match the old one.

2. When nautilus-media was uninstalled, how can one determine if any other
schemas file (in this case, totem) also provides the same set of schemas, and
install them accordingly?

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The default gconf database (/etc/gconf) is altered by severl package post
install scripts. It is easily possible to overwrite the settings of already
installed packages (e.g. totem and nautilus-media video thumbnailer do this). 

It also seems to be impossible to undo some changes once made by the post
install scripts leaving dead/unworking stuff in there breaking things (see Bug
4097 for an example).

So we end up having race conditions between packages again: the last one
overwrites the configuration of the previous ones and never undoes them when
uninstalled.

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