On Thursday, 2014-02-20, 08:57:34, Richard Hartmann wrote: > 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.
Sorry, probably using wrong terminology :)
I meant something like
./foo --prefix=${XDG_INSTALL_HOME:-$HOME/.local}
Cheers,
Kevin
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