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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Hey all,

While working on Bug #8969[0] it seems that KDE uses /usr/share/config
for configuration data. This means that those config files won't be
protected even if I modify it to use install_config_file (unless I tell
Sorcery that these are config files, which I could do, but read on).
According to the FHS[1] config files should only be placed in /etc[2].
I'd like to modify kdelibs to make /etc/config and have
/usr/share/config a symlink to it. I was going to use /etc/kde for
this, but then I read this in kdebase-3.4.1/kdm/README:
${kde_confdir} is usually ${prefix}/share/config
${kde_datadir} is usually ${prefix}/share/apps
The indented locations are envisioned for a configuration shared with
GDM.

I'll then modify kdebase to use install_config_file for the config files
and remove the installation from `make install` of those files.

I'll probably get to this either tonight or Sunday night/Monday if I
don't hear any complaints. ;)

-sandalle

[0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8969
[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/
[2] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-3.7.html

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