Re: Installing gconf preferences problems

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> Hi Havoc,
> 
> On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 23:20, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > If you install gconf with --sysconfdir=/etc, then /etc/gconf/2/path
> > will have /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults - but you also want to load
> > ~/bin/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, so you need to add that to
> > ~/.gconf.path
> 
> 	Should sysconfdir not default to ${prefix}/etc ? I must say I have the
> same problems as Ross.

As far as I know it does default to ${prefix}/etc.

If you install two copies of gconf in different places, then you have
to edit the config files so that copy one and copy two are storing
things in the same place. I have no idea how to avoid that.

Havoc