On 08/10/2010 11:29 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> Gentoo uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/nsbrowser/plugins for browser plugins.
> However, Debian uses /usr/$(get_libdir)/mozilla/plugins, and that's what
> many software projects (including Chromium) target.

And that is bad.

> Why are we using nsbrowser/plugins instead of mozilla/plugins, and how
> relalistic would it be to switch to mozilla/plugins?

nsbrowser name is more or less agnostic regarding the current browsers
and probably is due netscape being the originator of this api.

Given it's a path changing it isn't that hard even if IMHO it should be
declared by env var.

lu

PS: what about the user defined plugin dir (yes, it does exist)?

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo/linux
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero


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