Re: Conduits directory

[Pavel Hlavnicka <pavel gingerall cz>]

Sorry to bother you again, but is somebody here interested? I thing, 
that at least the ${datadir} instead of ${prefix} should be used.

P.

Pavel Hlavnicka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've some notes to the location of the conduits files.
>
> 1. *.conduits files are installed into ${datadir}/gnome-pilot/conduits; 
> this is ok.
>
> 2. When searched
>    (gnome_pilot_conduit_management_get_conduit_file_names() in
>     gnome-pilot-conduit-management.c)
>
>   - the GNOME_PATH environment is used as the FIRST choice directory
>   - CONDUITDIR is used when GNOME_PATH is not set
>
> Both of listed is problematic, I guess
>
> GNOME_PATH is used for several different purposes (e.g. gnome-config 
> uses this variable). I think, it is too 'strong' for tweaking things 
> like this. It prevents one to separate the data dir and libraries - this 
> is what I'm doing on my system, and trust me, I've got a good reason :)
>
> CONDUITDIR is set in the Makefile.in as ${prefix}, what is definitely 
> misleading, ${datadir} would work much better, wouldn't it?  :)
>
> Thanks for all your work.
>
> HTH
>
> Pavel


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