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In a nutshell: Why is the gconf directory hierarchy under /etc and not |
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under /usr/share? |
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/etc/gconf seems a bit out of place to me relative to the other things |
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in /etc. For one, it is quite large comparatively. This is because the |
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localized strings for all supported languages are stored there. This |
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brings up the point of why locale-specific strings are being stored |
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under /etc, and not under /usr/share. I thought /etc is for |
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configuration files, while /usr/share is for architecture-independent |
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read-only data files, the latter seeming to be what the gconf directory |
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holds. |
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The practical reason for this is that I thought the root filesystem was |
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supposed to be pretty lean, but currently, at least on my system, |
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/etc/gconf sticks out like a sore thumb (18M). It is far bigger than |
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the rest of /etc (the rest being 3M). |
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Thanks for any comments on this. |
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- Braden |
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