Re: X/Qt2 opie integration (patches included)

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 07-10-2008 13:20, Bernhard Guillon wrote:
> Any obstacles left? Else I would like to ask if some of you can please
> commit it [2] [3] to .dev branch.

I still dislike a single package handling so many different things *and* 
containing config files for other packages.


> best regards
> Bernhard Guillon
>
> 1 http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom/XQt/playground
> 2 http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4582
> 3 http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4603
>
> Bernhard Guillon schrieb:
>> Koen Kooi schrieb:
>>>
>>> NACK!
>>>
>>> +do_install() {
>>> [..]
>>> + install -d ${D}/home/root
>>> + install -m 0600 .blackboxrc ${D}/home/root
>>>
>>> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER! I wish ascii could
>>> produces some bigger capitals that blink and have baseballbats to get
>>> the point across, but sadly it can't.
>>>
>>> Imagine I don't log in as root and fire up packagekit to install that
>>> packages. I don't get the .blackboxrc, but the root user suddenly has
>>> his .blackboxrc overwritten without notice.
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER!
>>>
>>> ${sysconfdir} exists for a reason.
>>>
>> Ok, I added a second version of the patch to the bugtracker which
>> implements your suggestion.
>>
>> I did use ${HOME} in the first version because it is the standard
>> location for blackbox configuration [1].
>>
>> Is there any way for a clean implementation to put the config to the
>> standard location? With e.g postinstall? I don't like the idea of not
>> using a standard location but I agree that hardcode to /home/root can
>> cause trouble.
>>
>>
>> best regards
>> Bernhard Guillon
>>
>> 1
>> http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxDocumentation/BlackboxConfiguration#location
>>
>>
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