On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:18, Lubos Lunak wrote: > How about using a solution that'd merge these two? Let's say that > everything will be put in /opt/whatever, but the relevant files will also > have symlinks from $XDG_DATA_DIRS (/usr/local preferably). There would be > no need to modify $XDG_DATA_DIRS. There shouldn't be any bad performance > impact because of it. Everything will be in /opt/whatever and cleaning of > things added to $XDG_DATA_DIRS would be just a matter of scanning it for > invalid symlinks and dumping those.
this is a very elegant solution IMHO. we could easily extend the cache building apps (e.g. kbuildsycoca) to do the cleaning while scanning through XDG_DATA_DIRS even -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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