On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:08:41PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:59:46AM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:48:14AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Is scrollkeeper called by gconftool directly, or called separatedly by > > > some other magic ? I didn't find a way to add two schemas simultaneously > > > in the meager gconftool documentation, but maybe concatenating the files > > > will do ? > > > > Scrollkeeper has nothing to do with gconf. I only mentioned it because > > you said installing the schemas took a long time, and it doesn't. What > > takes time is the scrollkeeper update, which is totally unrelated. > > Scrollkeeper is for installing doc, not schemas. You can call twice > gconf install, and then call scrollkeeper.
Mmm, but i don't call scrollkeeper anywhere in the postinst, but then maybe debhelper or something does. > > > And when the package removes the files which gconftool adds to the gconf > > > database, does this cause problem ? Or is it that the schemas are never > > > used anymore after they are added ? > > > > Afaik, they are left in the gconf "registry" even in the original > > .schemas file has been uninstalled. > > Yep. Look into /etc/gconf/gconf.xml* dirs But then, is it needed to install the original .schemas ? Or can we just add the stuff to the registry, and erase them afterwards ? Is there really a need to keep two copies of it around ? Friendly, Sven Luther
