update-desktop-database location

[Karl Pietrzak]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:03, Christian Westgaard wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:03:27 +0100, Francois Gouget 
<fgouget at codeweavers.com> wrote:
> > Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> But /opt/gnome/bin is in the default PATH of SuSE Linux.
> >
> > Right, it is normally in root's PATH and that of any non-root user...
> >
> > *Except* when installing an RPM. RPM scripts cannot assume
> > /opt/gnome/bin and /opt/kde3/bin to be in the PATH.
>
> So I'm back to scripting individual tests per distro and gnome/kde version.

Isn't there some way we could create a library which would wrap these 
per-distributions differences?  So a developer could just go "install 
this .desktop file", and it would go to the necessary locations for KDE, 
GNOME, or both?