On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 19:10 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > The usual way to make this selectable is with a parameter for the > package's configure script, something like --disable-desktop-update . > > These days, it seems like very few packages need this any more. I don't > know if upstreams have just stopped doing update-desktop-database at > install time, or if they mostly somehow dynamically detect whether to do > this or not.
The best way is to test in the Makefile(.am) for $(DESTDIR), and skip the call if it's set. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel