On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Like the other variables there would be a specified default, so configure (or > whatever) could peform the check and fall back to the default or a shell > substitution expression could be used, etc. Those defaults are internal to programs; all a program would see in this case is ./foo --prefix='' as shell expansion would happen before that. I know what you meant, but the fact is that you can never solely rely on XDG variables in an interactive shell. > Anyway, just wanted to point out that if there is a need for a location that > can host user installed extension instead of data, then the better approach > might be addng a location for that instead of moving data to a new one. Agreed. Richard _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
