Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ Complain about useless/unnecessary differences in Gnome /etc file. ]
> The "schema" field does not look like configuration, either. In short, > these files don't seem to be configuration files at all. Some of these > files apparently contain localizations, too. Once again, not > configuration. > > It produced nearly 70,000 lines of diff. That is quite frankly > ridiculous. Maybe there is some configuration data in there *somewhere*, > but I sure am not going to spend the time to read 70,000 lines to find them. > > Please, could someone tell me why these should not be in > /usr/share/gconf? Otherwise, I propose a mass bug filing. I wholeheartedly agree with this. When a system administrator tries to get an overview of system changes or upgrades, there is just too much noise in /etc. As an effect of this, I have had to special-case Gnome files in /etc in the changetrack package so that these files are ignored, which is obviously not ideal. -- Jens Peter Secher _DD6A 05B0 174E BFB2 D4D9 B52E 0EE5 978A FE63 E8A1 jpsecher gmail com_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]