Bug#258704: marked as done (gnome-desktop-environment: gconf stores a huge amount of stuff in /etc)

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Package: gnome-desktop-environment
Version: 56
Severity: normal

On a system with gnome from sid /etc/gconf is 34 MiB in size. Is there a
strong reason why all that data is in /etc as opposed to /usr/share or
/var/lib? I understand that this is where upstream puts it...

Thank you,
florin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages gnome-desktop-environment depends on:
ii  epiphany-browser              1.2.6-1    Intuitive GNOME web browser
ii  esound                        0.2.29-1   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support
ii  fam                           2.7.0-5    File Alteration Monitor
ii  file-roller                   2.6.1-4    An archiver for GNOME
ii  gcalctool                     4.3.51-4   A GTK+ 2.0 desktop calculator
ii  gconf-editor                  2.6.2-1    An editor for the GConf configurat
ii  gnome-about                   2.6.1-2    The GNOME about box
ii  gnome-core                    56         The GNOME Desktop Environment -- e
ii  gnome-games                   1:2.6.2-2  games for the GNOME desktop
ii  gnome-gv                      2.6.1-1    GNOME PostScript viewer
ii  gnome-media                   2.6.2-0.2  Gnome 2 Media Utilities
ii  gnome-system-monitor          2.6.0-4    Process viewer and system resource
ii  gnome-themes                  2.6.1-2    official themes for the GNOME 2 de
ii  gnome-utils                   2.6.2-1    GNOME desktop utilities
ii  gnome2-user-guide             2.6.0.1-1  GNOME 2 User's Guide
ii  gnomemeeting                  1.0.2-3    The GnomeMeeting Voice Over IP Sui
ii  gpdf                          0.131-1    Portable Document Format (PDF) vie
ii  gucharmap                     1:1.2.0-6  Unicode character picker and font 
ii  mozilla-browser               2:1.6-5    Mozilla Web Browser - core and bro
ii  mozilla-xft                   2:1.6-5    Mozilla Web Browser - Xft support 
ii  nautilus-cd-burner            2.6.1-3    CD Burning front-end for Nautilus
ii  nautilus-media                0.8.0-2    Multimedia goodies for Nautilus
ii  zenity                        2.6.2-2    Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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As of version 2.10.1-2, GConf can now use only /etc for its own
configuration, and for system administrator defaults.

There are a few remaining packages putting their schemas
in /etc/gconf/schemas, and bugs were reported against all of them.

There are still many packages shipping their defaults
in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, but all they need is a rebuild using
debhelper >=3D 4.9.8.1. Please file bug reports against these packages if
you feel it is appropriate.

Regards,
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