gconf terribly wastes /etc space

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #319790 http://bugs.debian.org/319790

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #319790 http://bugs.debian.org/319790

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

user rant but not RC

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Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:07:57 +0200
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Subject: gconf terribly wastes /etc space

Package: gconf
Version: 1.0.9-7
Severity: serious

Hi,

gconf terribly wastes disk- and backupspace in /etc with
default files that definitely do not belong in /etc. On
my system /etc/gconf became 36 MB large, which is sort of sick.
Whoever puts 36 MB of default files in /etc didn't understand the unix
file system structure.

These things belong to /usr/share or /usr/lib.

Interestingly the same problem was reported almost two years ago
(Bug 227726), but completely ignored.

Please stop dumping megabytes of default files into /etc.

Hadmut

[Don Armstrong (don-debian)]

severity 319790 normal
merge 319790 319791
thanks

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 04:10:52 -0800
From: Don Armstrong <email address hidden>
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Subject: Merging OMG GCONF IS TEH HUGE!

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severity 319790 normal
merge 319790 319791
thanks

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Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
be fleeing to SLACKWARE.

And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?=20
 -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>

http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

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[Josselin Mouette (joss)]

Hi,

as GConf 1.x has been finally removed from the archive, I’m hereby
closing all related bugs that are not known to be present in GConf 2.x.
Feel free to reopen them on gconf2 if you think they still apply.

Cheers,
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