[Portland-bugs] [Bug 13284] XDG fails on KDE live cds for system install ( confirmed for Kubuntu)

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13284


Diego Pettenò <flameeyes at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Diego Pettenò <flameeyes at gmail.com>  2008-01-28 14:36:11 PST ---
This is far from being a problem just with live CDs.
The fact that xdg-mime uses kde-config to discover the path (and
xdg-desktop-menu _hardcodes_ the path to /usr/share/applnk) makes it impossible
to use xdg-utils reliably to install files during distribution packaging.

I'm hitting this problem packaging libprs500 for Gentoo: the finalisation
script uses xdg-utils to install a the .desktop files, icons and similar. While
I can use XDG_DATA_DIRS to fool xdg-utils into installing in DESTDIR != / the
shared files, when it comes to KDE-based stuff I can't override it from
environment.

It would be nice if xdg-utils used KDEDIR/KDEDIRS environment variable before
using kde-config.


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