[Portland] xdg-utils - allowing for distro overrides

[Dan Kegel]

On 3/14/06, Jeremy White <jwhite at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> If I bundle xdg-utils 1.0 in my application, a user
> may eventually install my software on a system that has
> xdg-utils 2.0 installed. ...
>
>   1.  Use the PATH, luke
>
>       Specify to ISVs that the proper way to invoke
>       xdg-utils is to put their interal bin directory
>       *last* in the path, and then to invoke the xdg-utils
>       straight up, allowing local path precedence to
>       take over.

That's the one I like.  It's really, really simple.
- Dan


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