* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20070907 02:14]: > Michael Prokop wrote:
> > Would be great if the Exec= lines of debian/menu of bsdgames could > > provide the full path to the applications instead of the binary > > names only. > If you would like to run programs in /usr/games, keep it in your PATH. > It's there by default. > Any directory can be added to or removed from PATH, not just /usr/games. > That is not a good argument for using hardcoded paths everywhere. > Hardcoded paths are harmful: > http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/absolute_paths_absolute_bad_idea/ ACK¹ - good point. But then the behaviour should be adjusted in other packages according: # grep -r 'Exec=.*bin/' /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/ | wc -l 502 There does not seem to exist any consensus how that should be handled generally. I can't find an according policy inside http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30046/2/menu-one-file.html#s3.6 as well. Do we care about the issue so it should become part of the policy? ¹ IMHO a clear and readable error message should be presented in pdmenu if a binary can't be found then². You are the maintainer of pdmenu as well: should I fill a separate bug report? Or do you know what I mean and care about that on your own? Or don't you see that as a bug at all? ² I typically don't have /usr/games inside $PATH of user root for example. thx && regards, -mika-
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