Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Moving gnome2_icon_cache_update functionality to xdg-utils.eclass

[Michał Górny]

W dniu pią, 16.02.2018 o godzinie 02∶17 +0200, użytkownik Mart Raudsepp
napisał:
> Hello,
>
> Before writing the obvious patches, would anyone terribly object to
> moving gnome2_icon_cache_update into xdg-utils.eclass instead and
> hooking it up via savelist guard in xdg.eclass (only running in
> postinst/postrm when really needed)?
>
> The gtk icon cache format isn't used by gtk+ only - it's used by Qt as
> well these days; and either way if anything installs things per the
> icon specs, the caches should be updated for gtk/qt to see it (even if
> the program itself is written in motif or something).

Maybe it'd be reasonable to rename it while at it, to gtk_icon_cache*
or xdg_gtk_icon_cache*. It would really suck to have xdg* provide
a function named gnome2*, especially when it's not specific to GNOME.

>
> Open dilemmas:
>
> * To DEPEND on gtk-update-icon-cache, or to rely on the toolkits to
> pull it in and only run the updates if the helper is present. We have
> it split out from gtk+ codebase, so it only has glib/gdk-pixbuf deps
> right now.
>
> * If it's worth trying to avoid double calls in postint and postrm for
> ebuilds that inherit xdg and call gnome2_icon_cache_update manually
> right now on top (due to xdg.eclass not doing it for them).
>
>
> If these changes are agreeable, then they could also be batched into a
> single push with the documentation update patches pending from mgorny
> for a single metadata cache invalidation of gnome2-utils.eclass using
> ebuilds.
>
> If this looks good, I can write patches soon, though there's always
> other things to do too (like work on integrating a gnome-meson.eclass
> or meson-desktop.eclass on top of this), so help with patches welcome
> as well.
>
>
> Mart
>

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Best regards,
Michał Górny