Hi, I agree with Lennart it is not a good choice to just throw env vars onto everything. But I disagree that "best way to get this in quickly..." is something we should use as argument.
About the patch: "at an appropriate place" does not add anything useful, remove it or suggest something concrete. 2018-05-02 Josh Triplett wrote: > This isn't a "maybe someone might use this someday", > this is "people specifically asked for this and intend to use it". Please cite. I would be interested who the people are and what they want to do with it. I don't have any objection to configuring this via an $XDG_PREFIX > instead, defaulting to ~/.local, and then saying the binary directory is > $XDG_PREFIX/bin. I would not make this configurable, unless there is a good use case for it. The search path (PATH) is the relevant place. Having multiple places to configure the same path only brings inconsistencies. If you want such a prefix nevertheless, XDG_LOCAL might be a better name. Imho the name XDG_PREFIX is too generic. >> However, I really don't see the benefit of adding individual >> configurability for each of the home dirs, because you should already >> have that anyway though the prefix dir you use when configuring your >> package... > This would provide a standardized way to *configure* that prefix, > because not all the world's a ./configure --prefix. XDG_LOCAL or XDG_BIN_DIRS would not help here at all. If the software does not support --prefix it won't support XDG_LOCAL or XDG_BIN_DIRS. PATH does help here. The argument for XDG_LOCAL or XDG_BIN_DIRS would be that these env vars could be used to drop binaries to. But, as I understand it, it is not the responsibility of XDG to provide build/install configuration. best regards, -- Markus Raab http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/raab/ TU Wien [email protected] Compilers and Languages Phone: (+431) 58801/185185 Argentinierstr. 8, 1040 Wien, Austria DVR 0005886 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
