From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 18 22:41:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AB516A412 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from smtpout.eastlink.ca (smtpout.eastlink.ca [24.222.0.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C54C43D83 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:41:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: from ip02.eastlink.ca ([24.222.10.10]) by mta01.eastlink.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.03 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J7C00K4LS88FH31@mta01.eastlink.ca> for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:38:32 -0300 (ADT) Received: from blk-224-199-230.eastlink.ca (HELO dwpc.dwlabs.ca) ([24.224.199.230]) by ip02.eastlink.ca with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:41:25 -0300 Received: from dwpc.dwlabs.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9IMeuG9087590 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:40:56 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca) Received: (from duane@localhost) by dwpc.dwlabs.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9IMeulo087589 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:40:56 -0300 (ADT envelope-from duane) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:40:56 -0300 From: Duane Whitty In-reply-to: <20061018214042.GB80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-id: <20061018224056.GC80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AY8CAMxINkWBSopaAQ X-IronPort-AV: i="4.09,325,1157338800"; d="scan'208"; a="866403123:sNHT199866488" References: <20061018214042.GB80635@dwpc.dwlabs.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: gconf2 and openldap X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:41:35 -0000 On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:40:42PM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: > Not sure I understand why gconf would have a dependency on ldap. > After reading the gconftools-2 man page, am I understanding correctly that gconf can use openldap for its schema storage, thus providing a distributed configuration environment? This in a way seems like something I read about for using ldap as an inventory management system. So, noticing firefox uses gconf at runtime, this could mean then that firefox could ask gconf to get configuration preferences for the current user from anywhere on the network, using ldap, which would be useful for diskless clients, for example? Best Regards, Duane Whitty