Default paths in Base Directory Specification

Thomas Leonard tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 15 15:50:53 EEST 2004


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:01:55AM +0200, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
[...]
> However, here it goes another idea.  Why don't the configure scripts take
> an argument, say --with-xdg-data-dir, that specifies the path to the fdo
> stuff at _build_ time?

That doesn't help with Python, shell scripts, PERL, etc, or anything
that's distributed as a binary. What exactly is the problem with setting
XDG_DATA_DIRS on boot?


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