Re: Namespacing issues ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Dan Winship <danw helixcode com> writes:

> > So we need to focus on making sure installing in /opt/whatever works
> > welld, instead of recommending a practice contrary to the FHS.
> 
> We need this to work for GNOME_PATH too. Perhaps instead of making an
> oafd config file, there should be a generic GNOME_PATH config file,
> which gdm or gnome-session or something would set GNOME_PATH from.
> 

It's easy to install wrapper scripts in /opt/whatever/bin that set
GNOME_PATH properly and then run the real binaries. That doesn't work
for OAF_INFO_PATH, though, since oafd may already be running. I agree
it would be nice to have this facility, but I do not think it is as
critical.

 - Maciej