begin quote On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:09:41 +0900 Braden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a nutshell: Why is the gconf directory hierarchy under /etc and not > > under /usr/share? > > /etc/gconf seems a bit out of place to me relative to the other things > > in /etc. For one, it is quite large comparatively. This is because > the localized strings for all supported languages are stored there. > This brings up the point of why locale-specific strings are being > stored under /etc, and not under /usr/share. I thought /etc is for > configuration files, while /usr/share is for architecture-independent > read-only data files, the latter seeming to be what the gconf > directory holds. > > The practical reason for this is that I thought the root filesystem > was supposed to be pretty lean, but currently, at least on my system, > /etc/gconf sticks out like a sore thumb (18M). It is far bigger than > the rest of /etc (the rest being 3M). > > Thanks for any comments on this. Actually, No. etc/gconf has many different functions, one is to provide default configurations for all Gnome /gconf enabled programs. The others include mandatory defaults, which means that an administrator can prevent somone from changing soem gconf variables, or provide system hard-coded defaults that cannot be changed. Theese are clearly configuration cases, And therefore belongs in /etc, even if "size" might be an issue. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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