Re: freedesktop/desktop-file-utils: update-desktop-database problem

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 09:46 -0400, Joseph E. Sacco, PhD wrote:
> Attached is a patched Makefile that resolves the update-desktop-database
> problem.
> 
> The problem
> -----------
> The command
> 
> 	update-desktop-database 
> 
> updates the cache file of each entry found in
> 
> 	XDG_DATA_DIRS
> 
> The user running the command must have write permission in each datadir
> associated with each entry in XDG_DATA_DIRS.  If not, the command will
> fail.
[ snipp ]

What's going on here anyway? Why does a post-install target in
freedesktop/desktop-file-utils call update-desktop-database at all?

This executable needs to be called every time there are new .desktop
files in $prefix/share/applications -- which is the case *after* you
installed one or more new packages.

IMHO it does not make any sense calling this right after installing
desktop-file-utils, as there are no .desktop files yet. This needs to be
run after you finished building GARNOME.

...guenther


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