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List:       kde-release-team
Subject:    Re: polkit-kde-kcmmodules editing /usr
From:       Jonathan Thomas <echidnaman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-10-24 15:40:33
Message-ID: CAA7M3nXPMTJ1_2RuRZfbQ__da-aap7g_=i2awBeXEGke-CMToA () mail ! gmail ! com
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These modules have never been released, and last I heard from Dario
they weren't recommended for general usage, so we (Kubuntu) have not
packaged or released them yet. This bug seems like a good example of
the above.

(But obviously, things shouldn't be editing /usr)

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Chris Reffett <creffett@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> We at Gentoo have noticed that polkit-kde-kcmmodules (or
> polkit-kde-kcmmodules-1) is saving modified configurations to /usr.
> You can find more info at
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438790 and the KDE bug at
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308934, but basically, there
> should not be any file editing going on in /usr, it should be in /etc
> instead. My question to the list: what are other distros doing about
> this, and is this breaking things for you all, too?
> Chris Reffett
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