On Saturday 28 May 2005 19:29, Florian Reitmeir wrote: > The packages rendered my desktop (gnome2) pretty much unusable (readonly > configuration, no icons, ...) I think that's a result of me forgetting to ensure that /var/cache/desktop-profiles dir existed (fix for that is pending)
> the conffile of the package gconfd2, /etc/gconf/2/path is altered by the
> package installation.
if and only if you tell it to (the answer to that question defaults to No)
I'm currently thinking of taking the replacing of the global path file out
of the installation, and putting it in a standalone script that's more
intelligent then just replacing the defaut path file
> so i tried to purge the package.
> All files were removed, but the conffile of gconfd2, /etc/gconf/2/path
> wasn't restored. So the package left an broken conffile.
your old path file is in /etc/gconf/2/path.pre-desktop-profiles
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