basedir spec and plugins

[Brian J. Tarricone]

On 07/15/2009 04:52 AM, Stefan.Kost at nokia.com wrote:
>
> I like
> "XDG_LIB_HOME will default to $HOME/.local/lib/$ARCH_OS_ABI_STRING/
> more as this allows the distro/admin to set it up and developers can just put a binary there.
>
> If we go for XDG_LIBROOT_HOME, we'll have to define $ARCH_OS_ABI_STRING.

Don't we have to do that regardless?

Well, ok, I suppose we don't strictly *have* to, but if different 
distros define it in different ways, that would be pretty ugly.  Not 
necessarily a practical problem, but certainly somewhat against the 
spirit of standardizing.

	-brian