Request for clarification on menu/file spec

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:18, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  How about using a solution that'd merge these two? Let's say that
> everything will be put in /opt/whatever, but the relevant files will also
> have symlinks from $XDG_DATA_DIRS (/usr/local preferably). There would be
> no need to modify $XDG_DATA_DIRS. There shouldn't be any bad performance
> impact because of it. Everything will be in /opt/whatever and cleaning of
> things added to $XDG_DATA_DIRS would be just a matter of scanning it for
> invalid symlinks and dumping those.

this is a very elegant solution IMHO. we could easily extend the cache 
building apps (e.g. kbuildsycoca) to do the cleaning while scanning through 
XDG_DATA_DIRS even

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Aaron J. Seigo
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