[fhs-discuss] Search paths

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:42:58PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> An easy way out would be to build on the XDG-base dir spec and declare
> that /opt/*/share would also be searched for plugins/icons/desktop
> files/... But that would enforce a directory structure beneath /opt/*/,
> that is currently left unspecified. Do we want that?

This is only useful if third-party proprietary application vendors can be
convinced to a) put something useful in /opt/[app]/share and b) put nothing
that might conflict there.

> (Getting this right is probably crucial to get a more lively scene of
> 3rd party developers into Linux, because as long as this isn't fixed the
> only path onto a Linux machine is via the distributor.)

Or by administrator configuration.

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