On 02/05/10 01:29, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Wayne Blaszczyk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Any reason why there is a $datadir variable used?
>> There is no explanation to what it should be set to.
>> If there is not objections, I'll change it to
>> /usr/share, or should it be $XORG_PREFIX/share?
>
> By single quoting the $datadir, it will follow whatever setting
> datadir takes. Sort of like the default mandir is '${datadir}/man'.
> It's handled this way because of the unknown settings in $XORG_CONFIG.
> It will work no matter if I have --datadir=/foo/bar in $XORG_CONFIG.
> You can probably change it and it wouldn't affect anyone, but that's
> the reason.
>
> --
> Dan
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't reaslise you could pass in
variables literaly.
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