Menu-spec update (Was: [Patch] Update 'How to' to clarify computation of datadir)

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Rodney Dawes wrote:

> Shouldn't this just match the Menu Spec's File locations section [1],
> which describes where these files go? Or should we just clarify datadir
> to mean $prefix/share and sysconfdir to mean $prefix/etc, or /etc when
> $prefix is /usr? Should this all be done in a spec outside the Menu
> Spec? Don't "we" already do this outside the Menu Spec, in the Linux
> Standards Base Filesystem Hierarchy Standard document?

This should be allowed to be customized.

I don't like having to patch ROX, GTK and other software for things like:

--- gtk/xdgmime/xdgmime.c.orig	2005-08-07 15:32:27.000000000 +0200
+++ gtk/xdgmime/xdgmime.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ xdg_run_command_on_dirs (XdgDirectoryFun
 
   xdg_data_dirs = getenv ("XDG_DATA_DIRS");
   if (xdg_data_dirs == NULL)
-    xdg_data_dirs = "/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/";
+    xdg_data_dirs = PREFIX "/share/";
 
   ptr = xdg_data_dirs;
 

Almost all autoconf configure-based software allows customization like 
this. Why does this spec have to be so hard-coded^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdifficult?


 Jeremy C. Reed

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