mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon — Issue #2: conflict with gnome-setting-daemon in fedora 16
Author: NiceandGently
Created: 2012-01-22 15:36:37+00:00
State: open

mate-setting-daemon provides those files in fedora 16.
/usr/libexec/gsd-locate-pointer
/usr/libexec/gsd-datetime-mechanism

But gnome-setting-daemon already provides this files in fedora.

[root@mother rave]# yum provides */gsd-datetime-mechanism */gsd-locate-pointer

gnome-settings-daemon-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64 : The daemon sharing settings from GNOME
: to GTK+/KDE applications
Repo : updates
Übereinstimmung von:
Dateiname : /usr/libexec/gsd-datetime-mechanism

gnome-settings-daemon-3.2.2-1.fc16.x86_64 : The daemon sharing settings from GNOME
: to GTK+/KDE applications
Repo : updates
Übereinstimmung von:
Dateiname : /usr/libexec/gsd-locate-pointer

So, for the moment i've remove this files in the rpm that i shipped in my repository, to avoid conflicts with the yum package manager.
Because i think most people installed first gnome if they used fedora, and than they install MATE for testing.
On my desktop i've no probs with this decision, gnome-setting-daemon is not installed.

But i'm not shure what consequences this have to remove those libexec ?
And if gnome-setting-daemon is installed does mate-setting-daemon correctly working with the libexec from gnome-setting-daemon?

Is it possible to rename the files to avoid conflicts with gnome-setting-daemon?

How do you solve this problem in LinuxMint because they shipped already gnome-3?