diff -uNr engine.orig/dconf-engine-profile.c engine/dconf-engine-profile.c

--- engine.orig/dconf-engine-profile.c	2014-02-10 00:04:59.000000000 -0500

+++ engine/dconf-engine-profile.c	2014-02-10 00:05:39.000000000 -0500

@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@

   if (profile == NULL)

     {

-      file = fopen ("/etc/dconf/profile/user", "r");

+      file = fopen ("/usr/local/etc/dconf/profile/user", "r");

       /* Only in the case that no profile was specified do we use this

        * fallback.

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@

     }

   else if (profile[0] != '/')

     {

-      gchar *filename = g_build_filename ("/etc/dconf/profile", profile, NULL);

+      gchar *filename = g_build_filename ("/usr/local/etc/dconf/profile", profile, NULL);

       file = fopen (filename, "r");

       g_free (filename);

     }

diff -uNr engine.orig/dconf-engine-source-system.c engine/dconf-engine-source-system.c

--- engine.orig/dconf-engine-source-system.c	2014-02-10 00:04:59.000000000 -0500

+++ engine/dconf-engine-source-system.c	2014-02-10 00:05:14.000000000 -0500

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@

   GvdbTable *table;

   gchar *filename;

-  filename = g_build_filename ("/etc/dconf/db", source->name, NULL);

+  filename = g_build_filename ("/usr/local/etc/dconf/db", source->name, NULL);

   table = gvdb_table_new (filename, FALSE, &error);

   if (table == NULL)