[Portland] DESTDIR support for xdg-utils

[Stefan Schweizer]

On 8/22/06, Bastian, Waldo <waldo.bastian at intel.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure. It seems that you are trying to run a post-install hook as
> part of the package building process. I'm not sure I understand why you
> want to do that. If you run this part truly post-installation you will
> not run into these problems. Doesn't gentoo provide facilities for that?

no, the part xdg-(mime|desktop|icon) is supposed to do is to install
files into /usr/share/

installing of stuff should be done during installation and package
creation phase where no root access is given. This phase can also be
done by an use with DESTDIR= set.

The only part that xdg-mime does and should be done post-installation
is update-mime-database. And, yes, Gentoo does have facilities to do
that without xdg-* tools help.

Installation cannot happen in post-installation because then files
would not get tracked and removed when uninstalling the package.

Best regards,
Stefan