update-desktop-database location

Stanislav Brabec sbrabec at suse.cz
Tue Feb 7 17:35:23 EET 2006


Matthias Clasen writes:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:

> > > Well, common sense suggests to look in /usr/bin. Does that really needs
> > > to be explicit in the spec ? Come on.
> > 
> > Actually on SuSE update-desktop-database is not
> > located in /usr/bin nor in $PATH.
> > 
> I personally think its silly to put a binary thats supposed to be used
> by third-party apps out of $PATH.

But /opt/gnome/bin is in the default PATH of SuSE Linux. In SuSE Linux
there is whole GNOME, GTK+, GLib etc.

For historical reasons, binary compatibility and lack of features in RPM
it is not easy to move.

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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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