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| -rw-r--r-- | devel/GConf/pkg/DESCR | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/devel/GConf/pkg/DESCR b/devel/GConf/pkg/DESCR index 6d0a817062d..75da10324ea 100644 --- a/devel/GConf/pkg/DESCR +++ b/devel/GConf/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ - GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the -Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME -desktop. +GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the +Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME +desktop but does not require GNOME; configure should notice if GNOME +is not installed and compile the basic GConf library anyway. - GCONF IS SO INCREDIBLY ALPHA. AS IN, THERE ARE MORE UNTESTED CODE PATHS -THAN TESTED ONES. However, it "theoretically" works and I'm interested in -people trying it out and looking for bugs. + GConf does require glib, ORBit, libxml, and the popt option parsing +library. XML will be optional in the future if someone writes another +storage backend. - Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> + There's an introductory article at +http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/index.html, written a while ago +but mostly still valid. Also, there's a mailing list +gconf-list@gnome.org, see http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gconf-list |