From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lin Jian <me@linj.tech>
Cc: 68807@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68807: 29.1; Can bindir used for emacsclient(-mail).desktop in Makefile.in be removed?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:25:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <868r463nle.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sf2ekisb.fsf@linj.tech> (message from Lin Jian on Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:08:47 +0800)
> From: Lin Jian <me@linj.tech>
> Cc: 68807@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:08:47 +0800
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Yes, because the Emacs's upstream installation procedure installs
> > emacsclient in ${bindir}. So "our "make install" wants to make sure
> > the desktop file will reference the correct emacsclient, not the one
> > found first on PATH.
>
> Since (I think) emacs and emacsclient are installed to the same
> directory, why is not bindir used for emacs in *.desktop files? Why are
> emacs and emacsclient treated differently in *.desktop files?
I don't know, but people have been committing changes to these files
for many moons, so I guess there is some reason. If you are really
interested, try looking at the Git history of that, and then look up
discussions here or on emacs-devel near the times of the changes.
> Is this a bug?
Not likely, because this is AFAIK used by many users and distros.
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2024-01-29 22:34 bug#68807: 29.1; Can bindir used for emacsclient(-mail).desktop in Makefile.in be removed? Lin Jian via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-30 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-30 14:08 ` Lin Jian via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-30 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-02-05 23:36 ` Lin Jian via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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