Hello. I am a gentoo user and I just tried Gnome 2.26. I carelessly installed the whole Gnome into my laptop yesterday and soon uninstalled those accessories which seems not so useful for me. But I notice that there are plenty of entries left in the gconf-editor. I tried to restart my system and did not start X. I reinstalled those parts and manually gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rules those schema files before I uninstalled them again. I also cleaned my ~/.gconf directory. But I still disappointedly found those entries still listed in my gconf-editor, noticing that /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree contains a lot of things which belong to those purged parts.
One of Gentoo Gnome developers told me that ebuild actually did gconftool-2 --makefile-uninstall-rules for me while purging. And IMHO this might be a "feature" of gconf. I googled a lot about "clean gconf" but find no solution but gconf-cleaner. But this tool is no longer maintained and is also deprecated since it can cause rather critical errors. Since gconf-2 lasts for several years, I cannot scrunitize all the emails in the list. I am wondering that is this expected? Will this be solved in gconf-3? (I noticing that Ubuntu might also have this problem. I test this on Ubuntu 8.04 and aptitude purge gnome-keyring and them found those entries left also.) Thank you very much. _______________________________________________ gconf-list mailing list gconf-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list