Bug#633442: libgconf2-4: add Provides: gsettings-backend

[Paul Wise]

On Sun, 2011-07-10 at 13:25 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Certainly not as is, since it would satisfy dependencies immediately for
> all packages that should get dconf installed instead.

That is exactly what I desire. dconf isn't friendly to ~/ in git since
configuration details are stored in one big binary blob so I don't want
it installed or used or anywhere near any of my systems.

> Maybe by splitting the backend in a separate package. And even this way,
> it needs to be enabled by hand so I’m not sure it’s the best course of
> action. The GConf GSettings backend is not really well supported
> upstream, and the most likely result is that people have broken settings
> and don’t understand how.

Splitting it out would be acceptable. I can probably inject a
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=gconf environment variable somewhere to enable it.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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