On Wednesday 22 March 2006 08:07, Waldo Bastian wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:52, Jeremy White wrote: > > > Yes, that is the intention and has been the intention all along. For > > > example, the desktop base directory specification has been saying > > > from the start that the default value for datadir during installation > > > is /usr/share. > > > > Sure, but 'default' suggests that its configurable, which, at least > > for an ISV, it is not. > > For an OSV it's configurable and they can adjust the env. vars > accordingly to make sure things keep working. An ISV doesn't have that > option.
Is it really that difficult for an ISV to look at XDG_*_DIRS, check which
ones are writeable and pop up a question asking which one to stuff their
files in (or if you want a new dir)? That would still give the same
defaults if the environment variables aren't set.
Also I'm not sure about the default use of /usr/share for ISV stuff, LSB
puts third-party things under /opt, do we really want to conflict with
this?
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