Bug 469037

Well-known problem. 
But rpm doesn't really make that possible.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
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So Toshio is working on some macros for this: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GConf_Scriptlets_%28draft%29

that add checks to not bother doing work that doesn't need to be done.

I talked with Owen a bit earlier this week about some possible changes that may help here.

Owen needs to ability to specify a separate gconf source for schemas to make gnome-shell in jhbuild work.  This would be done by an environment variable.

We could add an API that is similar to the environment variable and have individual apps use the api to install their schemas to their datadirs.

Then schema installation for an app would happen in %install instead of %post.

Only keys shared across multiple apps would need schema installation to be performed in the default source.

I'm not convinced that that is going to fix more than it is going to break.

For one thing, there will be no single gconf database per-user anymore, so tools like gconf-editor or gconftool-2 will cease to work.

We should not do radical changes like that to an obsolescent technology, but rather hold out until it finally gets replaced.

I guess we could elide the api entirely and just add a /etc/gconf/2/path.d directory where apps could drop their sources.

I don't know how well the gconf daemon will scale to having tons of sources though.

You may be right that these kinds of changes are too radical for gconf with dconf on the horizon.

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