Re: Namespacing issues ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Dan Winship <danw helixcode com> writes:

> > It's easy to install wrapper scripts in /opt/whatever/bin that set
> > GNOME_PATH properly and then run the real binaries.
> 
> No, arbitrary apps may need to know about arbitrary other apps'
> install prefixes. (The specific example I'm thinking of is gnome-vfs
> keys/mime files, where any app that calls the relevant gnome_vfs
> functions wants to see the keys/mime files for every installed gnome
> app.)
> 

Good point. I am not sure if a solution to this problem would be
accepted for stable gnome-libs...

 - Maciej