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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Cc: freedesktop-bugs@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:11:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1391069476.6850.1.camel@kanae> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52E9C8F6.6080106@gentoo.org>

Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 22:37 -0500, Mike Gilbert a écrit :
> One difference: it creates 3 of the 4 directories under ${HOME}
> instead
> of ${T}, just to mimic the default behavior in the XDG basedir spec a
> bit more closely.

The thing with ${HOME} is that it should not be a directory where XDG
compliants tools should be able to store anything permanent while
building since this would affect consecutive builds (say
gobject-introspection, gstreamer registry, etc).

This is why it is set to ${T} in gnome2-utils.eclass.

-- 
Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
Gentoo



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-30  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-30  3:37 [gentoo-dev] New eclass: xdg-basedir Mike Gilbert
2014-01-30  8:11 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue [this message]
2014-01-30  8:24   ` [gentoo-dev] " Jonathan Callen
2014-01-30  8:29   ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-30  8:35     ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2014-01-30 11:48 ` Michael Palimaka
2014-01-30 13:03   ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-30 14:45     ` Jeroen Roovers
2014-01-30 15:44       ` [gentoo-dev] Shell function names (was: New eclass: xdg-basedir) Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-30 17:32   ` [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir Mike Gilbert
2014-01-30 17:45     ` Michael Palimaka

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