On Friday 23 September 2005 20:45, David Ciecierski wrote: > > Could you enlighten me as to why this is necessary? > > It is because gconftool-2, as well as its configuration file and schema > database belong to the gconf user - so if you're installing a new > package as another unprivileged user (which you normally do when > following the hint), you don't have write access to all these files, ie. > adding schemas fails. The same applies to scrollkeeper. > > This 'issue' does get a little tedious at times, because some packages' > make install fails when it cannot install schemas and/or update > scrollkeeper database. Some also ignore the --disable-schemas-install. > You then have to manually go through neccessary Makefiles are comment > out scrollkeeper-update and/or gconftool-2. > > Take care,
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