Make XDG_DATA_DIRS obey the basedir spec#8
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cmrd-senya wants to merge 1 commit intorubyworks:masterfrom
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Make XDG_DATA_DIRS obey the basedir spec#8cmrd-senya wants to merge 1 commit intorubyworks:masterfrom
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You probably want to have a look at https://github.com/bkuhlmann/xdg which is the active fork. |
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@peterhoeg yes, I've already figured that out, thanks! |
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Ideally yes, but @trans hasn't been very active here in a long time. |
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I've opened an issue here: #9 I think it will make it more visible and obvious to the occasional visitors where to look for the up-to-date version. |
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The "XDG Base Directory Specification" defines that when XDG_DATA_DIRS is unset the value of
/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/should be used:::RbConfig::CONFIG['datadir']call in some environments (e.g. RVM installed Ruby) returns something different. In my case it was"/home/user/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.6.5/share". This violates the specification. Also due to this violation one specific software project didn't work correctly for me out-of-the box.I think that most of the GNU/Linux installation actually define
XDG_DATA_DIRSexplicitly so this code doesn't use the fallback in most of the cases and that's why this went unnoticed. But in the cases whenXDG_DATA_DIRSthis could lead to bugs.