[Portland] xdg-utils - allowing for distro overrides

[Banginwar, Rajesh]

One issue I see with this approach is when ISVs like to use their
version of tools (for any reason) instead of taking the distro specific
ones. In general, I would suggest not forcing the issue here. Let the
ISV find their solution. They can install their tools in /opt/<ISV>
location and hardcode the paths if necessary.

Thanks,

-Rajesh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: portland-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:portland-
> bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Dan Kegel
> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:29 PM
> To: Jeremy White
> Cc: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Portland] xdg-utils - allowing for distro overrides
> 
> 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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