Great, thanks. In that case I'm fine with weston having no recommends for libpam-xdg-support.
>From #weston: --- Day changed Thu Sep 06 2012 15:52 < smallfoot-> weston should work without XDG_RUNTIME_DIR 15:52 < smallfoot-> as per the spec 15:52 < smallfoot-> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#variables 15:52 < smallfoot-> "If $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set applications should fall back to a replacement directory with similar capabilities and print a warning message. " 16:13 < Darxus> smallfoot-: That's kind of funny. 16:20 < krh> smallfoot-: the funny thing is, there is no directory with similar capabilities 16:33 < smallfoot-> krh, oh, maybe ~/tmp/ or /tmp/ or /run/user/ ? 16:34 < smallfoot-> today mountall was updated in ubuntu from 2.38 to 2.40 which have /run/user/ and the preliminary work for XDG_RUNTIME_SUPPORT, the other part is missing is a PAM module 16:36 < smallfoot-> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/consolekit/+bug/894391 16:38 < thiago> $HOME could be network-mounted 16:38 < thiago> it could also be SMB, which means no sockets 16:38 < thiago> /tmp is insecure, since other users can write to it 16:39 < thiago> and /run/user/$USER *is* XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. If your distro creates it, why doesn't it set the variable? 16:43 < smallfoot-> oh 16:43 < thiago> but we could create a secure dir in /tmp 17:27 < uartie> smallfoot: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-June/003935.html 17:28 < Darxus> Heh. 17:29 < Darxus> uartie: There were problems with people not realizing it was using ./ and as a result trying to run clients from a different directory than where they ran weston. 17:30 < Darxus> Creating a secure directory in /tmp seems good. 17:30 < uartie> yeh The link in there is to a post by krh (creator of wayland) to the mailing list on the same subject: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives /wayland-devel/2012-June/003935.html I don't really mind weston just failing if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set. I think it cut down on confusion considerably. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1058211 Title: weston does not fallback gracefully if $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/weston/+bug/1058211/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
