Lennon,
I have to agree with Jeremy, that you miss the point here.
Lennon Cook schrieb:
Joerg Barfurth wrote:
The problem is that it complicates things for users that simply want
newly installed applications to be in their menu.
I would think that these people would often be using
Sorry, I should have been clearer here. My point was not 'this is the
users problem', but that it is a wider problem than can be solved in
the menu spec, and is - IMO - not a problem that should be solved in
several places. The right solution would be a distro that allows
non-distro packages
Lennon Cook wrote:
On 3/24/06, Waldo Bastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just like #3, the application could install all its files within its own
prefix.
I tend to think that this is the best idea.
The problem is that it complicates things for users that simply want
newly installed
I would think that these people would often be using distro-provided
tools for package management, so everything just working becomes the
distros concern. Users who install non-distro packages usually have to
put up with other things anyway.
Sorry; I just cannot let that comment pass.
The
On 3/25/06, Jeremy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would think that these people would often be using distro-provided
tools for package management, so everything just working becomes the
distros concern. Users who install non-distro packages usually have to
put up with other things
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:33:47 -0600, Jeremy White wrote:
I think idea #3 is a neat idea (I'm a big fan
of having all files isolated into their own
/opt/blech directory), but I just don't see a practical
road from here to there. And even if #3 is championed,
a short term resolution is needed
On Thursday 23 March 2006 06:33, Jeremy White wrote:
Okay, so this is my summary of this thread.
The problem is that there is no specified place to write system
wide data files (like menu files). Reference this page in the
basedir-spec:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:14, Waldo Bastian wrote:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 06:33, Jeremy White wrote:
Okay, so this is my summary of this thread.
The problem is that there is no specified place to write system
wide data files (like menu files). Reference this page in the
1. My proposal to specify that the first writable
directory in XDG_*_DIRS be used.
The objections to this are probably best explained by Bart in this mail:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-February/007746.html
Yes; that is a sound objection; using the first writable
On 3/24/06, Waldo Bastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just like #3, the application could install all its files within its own
prefix.
I tend to think that this is the best idea. If the user has specified
a directory where a particular app should install, it should /not/
install any files outside
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