Bug#512947: gconf2-common: add --mandatory capability to update-gconf-defaults

[Mark Hymers]

On Sun, 25, Jan, 2009 at 01:43:35PM +0100, Josselin Mouette spoke thus..
> I think this would only be of interest for files shipped in a package,
> so that they can be shipped on several machines. Therefore, there needs
> to be debhelper integration as well for such settings.

Would something like the attached do?

> If you only want to set mandatory settings for one machine, you can
> simply use gconftool or gconf-editor as root, so there’s no need to
> write the XML by hand.

Yeah, but we've found for batches of machines it's much easier to handle
using the update-gconf-defaults method along with the desktop package we
ship around anyways.

Cheers,

Mark

-- 
Mark Hymers <mhy at debian dot org>

"I never make predictions.  I never have and I never will."
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