On Tuesday 07 February 2006 08:35, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Matthias Clasen writes:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
> > > > Well, common sense suggests to look in /usr/bin. Does that really
> > > > needs to be explicit in the spec ? Come on.
> > >
> > > Actually on SuSE update-desktop-database is not
> > > located in /usr/bin nor in $PATH.
> >
> > I personally think its silly to put a binary thats supposed to be used
> > by third-party apps out of $PATH.
>
> But /opt/gnome/bin is in the default PATH of SuSE Linux. In SuSE Linux
> there is whole GNOME, GTK+, GLib etc.

... and yet it remains that /opt/gnome/bin is a highly ridiculous place for an 
xdg binary. unless, of course, this binary is only intended to ever be used 
by gnome. ;)

> For historical reasons, binary compatibility and lack of features in RPM
> it is not easy to move.

symlinks?

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