Fedora Weekly News Issue 111, Core Fonts Issues

[John Summerfield]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> this may be a general problem, of which this is one instance. I've seen
>> KDE configuration files in /usr:
>> 06:29 [summer at numbat ~]$ ls -l /usr/share/config/kdm/*
> 
> Look closer, /usr/share/config/kdm is a symlink to /etc/kde/kdm (or should
> be!).

My f8 box is down atm (being moved around the room). This is SL6, a 
RHEL5 clone:
08:10 [summer at numbat ~]$ \ls -l /usr/share/config/kdm /etc/kde/
/etc/kde/:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 26 09:12 env
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct  9 00:14 xdg

/usr/share/config/kdm:
total 64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3610 Nov 11  2006 Xaccess
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  194 Nov 12  2006 Xreset
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  481 Nov 11  2006 Xservers
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  938 Nov 11  2006 Xsetup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  192 Nov 12  2006 Xstartup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  303 Nov 11  2006 Xwilling
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  350 Nov 25 07:16 backgroundrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1860 Nov 25 07:52 kdmrc
08:10 [summer at numbat ~]$



What's the position on your system?

> 
> That being said, kde does still put a bunch of stock configs
> into /usr/share/config and /usr/share/config.kcfg/
> Our packaging includes the ability to place items into
> /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config
> (owned by kde-settings) and /etc/kde that override those however.

I don't care a lot about _default_ setting in /usr, but any settings 
there must be overridden by specifications in /etc



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John

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