Re: GConf and bonobo-config - some ideas

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 20Jun2001 02:51PM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes: 
> > is this the thing that starts up root-owned oafd's?
> 
> Pretty much.
> 
> > if so, have you any ideas on how to not start root oafd/gconfd?
> 
> gconfd exits after a few minutes of non-use. Shouldn't be worse than
> any other process started up during a package install.

I'm planning to add this same feature to oafd.
 
> But if you pass --use-local-source to gconftool it will go directly to
> the database and bypass gconfd. Perhaps this should be the default for
> --install-schema-file.

This sounds like a smart move in any case though. Better not to spawn
the processes at all, if they're unnecessary in this case.

Regards,

Maciej