> I recently removed, then reinstalled, MacPorts 2.2.1 trying to diagnose a > problem with glib. The problem was that when meld tried to write into the > director glib’s g_get_user_dir(), it would get a a permission denied because > this directory was under /opt/local/share, which is a system directory. > > After some digging, I found that MacPorts modified my .tcshrc
I can’t find this being done in glib2 or meld. Which port caused your ~.tcshrc to be modified? > with three variables that override the glib defaults. These variables, and > their values are: > > setenv XDG_DATA_DIRS /opt/local/share > setenv XDG_DATA_HOME /opt/local/share > setenv XDG_CONFIG_DIRS /opt/local/etc/xdg > > The problem is that these XDG directories are all supposed to be user > specific, not system specific. I don’t know why MacPorts picked these values, > but they’re clearly wrong. Simply removing these lines caused glib to revert > back to reasonable defaults. > > This looks like a bug in the install script. I don’t know who else is having > this problem, but the install scripts should never be using these values for > these directories, since these directories should never writable by normal > users. In fact, I suspect that the system will work just fine without setting > these variables at all. > > Thanks. > > -- > jonathankoren > > > > > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
