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Bug 383044 - gconf doesn't clean up after itself
gconf doesn't clean up after itself
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: GConf
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Markup backend
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GConf Maintainers
GConf Maintainers
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-06 16:25 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2018-08-17 14:00 UTC
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-12-06 16:25:37 UTC
With the merged tree markup backend gconf --recursive-unset doesn't prune empty directories, so all the entries in the directories get removed, but the actual directory entries don't.

Downstream bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216223
Comment 1 André Klapper 2018-08-17 14:00:24 UTC
GConf has been deprecated since 2011.

GConf is not under active development anymore. Its codebase has been archived:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gconf/commits/master

dconf and gsettings are its successors. See https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ch34.html and https://developer.gnome.org/GSettings/ for porting info.

Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect
reality. Feel free to open a task in GNOME Gitlab if the issue described in this task still applies to a recent + supported version of dconf/gsettings. Thanks!