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+# A bbclass to handle installed GSettings (glib) schemas, updated the compiled
+# form on package install and remove.
+#
+# The compiled schemas are platform-agnostic, so we can depend on
+# glib-2.0-native for the native tool and run the postinst script when the
+# rootfs builds to save a little time on first boot.
+
+# TODO use a trigger so that this runs once per package operation run
+
+DEPENDS += "glib-2.0-native"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "glib-2.0-utils"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas"
+
+gsettings_postinstrm () {
+	glib-compile-schemas $D${datadir}/glib-2.0/schemas
+}
+
+python populate_packages_append () {
+    pkg = d.getVar('PN', True)
+    bb.note("adding gsettings postinst scripts to %s" % pkg)
+
+    postinst = d.getVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, True) or d.getVar('pkg_postinst', True)
+    if not postinst:
+        postinst = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+    postinst += d.getVar('gsettings_postinstrm', True)
+    d.setVar('pkg_postinst_%s' % pkg, postinst)
+
+    bb.note("adding gsettings postrm scripts to %s" % pkg)
+
+    postrm = d.getVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, True) or d.getVar('pkg_postrm', True)
+    if not postrm:
+        postrm = '#!/bin/sh\n'
+    postrm += d.getVar('gsettings_postinstrm', True)
+    d.setVar('pkg_postrm_%s' % pkg, postrm)
+}