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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: freedesktop-bugs@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 08:11:30
Message-Id: 1391069476.6850.1.camel@kanae
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] New eclass: xdg-basedir by Mike Gilbert
1 Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 22:37 -0500, Mike Gilbert a écrit :
2 > One difference: it creates 3 of the 4 directories under ${HOME}
3 > instead
4 > of ${T}, just to mimic the default behavior in the XDG basedir spec a
5 > bit more closely.
6
7 The thing with ${HOME} is that it should not be a directory where XDG
8 compliants tools should be able to store anything permanent while
9 building since this would affect consecutive builds (say
10 gobject-introspection, gstreamer registry, etc).
11
12 This is why it is set to ${T} in gnome2-utils.eclass.
13
14 --
15 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
16 Gentoo

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir Jonathan Callen <jcallen@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: New eclass: xdg-basedir Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>