HEADS UP: New gconf key policy

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:20:25 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke  
<marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> Please take a look at the latest update to archivers/fileroller, and let
> me know what you think.  This is the new gconf policy I think we need to
> adopt if we're to survive the upcoming gconf changes in GNOME 2.8 (it's
> similar to the way we handle OMF files now).  This will also make gconf
> handling much more robust with respect to plists.
>
> The one downside I see with this is that we will miss Makefile bugs that
> prevent proper schema installation.  One way around that is to add a
> pkg-install script to each port that installs gconf schemas, and do
> gconf registration there.  This may be more work than it's worth,
> though.
>
> What are people's thoughts on this?  Thanks.

I like it and I agree with pav what he has said.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Joe


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