On 20/08/05, Paul Pogonyshev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michel Salim wrote:
> > - Could you add a --disable-scrollkeeper-update flag to the configure
> > script? It should stop the [un]install-data-hook-omf targets from
> > calling scrollkeeper-update, which when building an RPM should be
> > called during the post-installation and pre-removal stages instead.
> 
> Can you explain how exactly it should work?  I looked at a few other
> packages that use ScrollKeeper and they doesn't seem to have anything
> like this.  How are they packed in RPMs then?
> 
Galeon (and I think Nautilus also) does this:
http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/galeon/src/galeon-1.2.11/configure.in

I'd hazard a guess that most packages just silently fail when trying
to write to /var/lib/scrollkeeper. In the future, apparently
gnome-doc-utils should support omf installations so
scrollkeeper-update does not have to be called directly:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-February/msg00019.html

> > - I made a rudimentary .desktop file for quarry - could this be
> > included in the next stable release? That way, other users could
> > contribute to translating the desktop file.
> 
> Sure.  Should it be installed to $(prefix)/share/applications in normal
> build?
It should, yes.
> 
> > Great program, by the way! Now I just need an Amazons engine to play with.
> 
> Yeah, that's a problem.
>
Good to know that problem is fixed at least :)

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