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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:54:30 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        John Merryweather Cooper <johnmary@adelphia.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: New gconf key policy
Message-ID:  <1088049270.91312.19.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040624030021.GA56728@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>
References:  <1088040025.91312.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20040624030021.GA56728@borgdemon.losaca.adelphia.net>

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On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 23:00, John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:20:25PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Please take a look at the latest update to archivers/fileroller, and le=
t
> > me know what you think.  This is the new gconf policy I think we need t=
o
> > adopt if we're to survive the upcoming gconf changes in GNOME 2.8 (it's
> > similar to the way we handle OMF files now).  This will also make gconf
> > handling much more robust with respect to plists.
> >=20
> > The one downside I see with this is that we will miss Makefile bugs tha=
t
> > prevent proper schema installation.  One way around that is to add a
> > pkg-install script to each port that installs gconf schemas, and do
> > gconf registration there.  This may be more work than it's worth,
> > though.
> >=20
> > What are people's thoughts on this?  Thanks.
> >=20
> > Joe
> >=20
> > --=20
> > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
>=20
> Well, there seems to be an increasing amount of post-install tasks in
> GNOME ports, so I think the idiom of using a pkg-install script for
> each port is a good one.

So far, there are only two (counting gconf) post-[de]install handlers
that are being added the plists.  I've written an omf.pl script (in my
CVS repo) to handle automatically adding OMF handlers.  I plan on doing
the same for gconf.  Given that, a pkg-install script might add more
repo bloat that we need at this time.

>   Turning to a design issue, do you see the
> changes to gconf handling as making debugging of gconf-related
> issues easier or harder.  I'm having a devil of a time wrestling an
> update of comms/gfax into working order because of gconf issues.

I don't think it will make gconf issues any harder to troubleshoot.=20
Like I said, it will "mask" the problem we see occasionally when a
developer messes up one of the Makefiles, and schemas are not properly
installed.

What gconf problems are you having?

Joe

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> jmc
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