When packaging gnome stuff with make DESTDIR=$somedir/pkg install, many packages are updating my scrollkeeper database, installing a mime database, updating my freedesktop.org desktop-database specs, register gconf schema files, etc on my local system. Almost every package has a --disable-schemas-install option, but half of them are hardly working, because the conditional is set in the Makefiles, but never used after that.
Another thing is the scrollkeeper database: there is no option to disable scrollkeeper database generation, which results in a nice and shiny updated scrollkeeper database on your host system, or with gnome source tarballs updated with new automake, a nice and shiny scrollkeeper database included in your package. Currently I wreck out the scrollkeeper things with some find and sed functions from the Makefile.in before I run ./configure. Same as for update-mime-database and update-desktop-database: I have to define the variable to /bin/true to skip generation on packages that do generate these databases. I have only seen one or two packages that allow to disable the database stuff. It would be nice to have consistency across the gnome buildscripts used in the various source tarballs, the current stuff is not foolproof as it is now. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
