Where to start

[Tony Houghton]

In <1112721729.10850.13.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 15:08 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote:
> > 
> > Can the config file parser expand ~ and/or variables in filenames?
> 
> Not right now. If you add that you have to think about escaping and so
> forth so it's a little bit complicated.
> 
> I think it might be simpler to just add a datadir_relative=yes|no option
> to <servicedir> which would end up adding a search path of servicedirs
> according to the xdg spec.

Good idea. You don't even need the extra parameter though; you could
just interpret incomplete paths (no leading '/') as relative.

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