Re: Autostart on logout

2006-04-22 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Saturday 22 April 2006 04:15, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, Some people are asking for ways to start some commands on logout (like, eg, removing all files in a directory). Is this something that we could/should add to the autostart spec? Yeah, I think this is also important. I don't see a

more /usr/local stuff [WAS: Re: Autostart and MAC security]

2006-03-26 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Sunday 26 March 2006 14:31, Mike Hearn wrote: Oh, I should note that there's no fundamental reason RPMs must have root privs anyway: autopackages can already install without root access and it's easy to imagine an RPM only having full root access if it's been signed by a trusted key (from

Re: Menu-spec update (Was: [Patch] Update 'How to' to clarify computation of datadir)

2006-03-22 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 06:44, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: If XDG_*_DIRS isn't set you most likely end up using /usr/local/share by default (when using the first writeable directory), which seems more sane than /usr/share as it avoids conflicts with files from the the distributor.

Re: Allowing apps to install packages

2006-02-28 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 12:06, John Tapsell wrote: Hi,   If an app wants to install some files from the distro's repository, is there currently any projects to try to allow that?   For example, in a KDE app we may want to install a certain set of files.  What would be useful would be in

Re: Allowing apps to install packages

2006-02-28 Thread Karol Pietrzak
On Tuesday 28 February 2006 17:42, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Karol Pietrzak wrote: In addition, I myself am I working on a cross-distribution library [2] which would enable developers to do seemingly simple things like get the KDE prefix with relative ease (Right now even