From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Adding .xsession to guile-wm Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:45:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20160912160527.GA6808@jocasta.intra> <20160912180710.GC24630@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <20160912181313.GA8567@jocasta.intra> <87zinc3850.fsf@loki.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjcoE-0002Wy-79 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:46:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjco8-0005NL-MW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:46:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ua0-f195.google.com ([209.85.217.195]:34558) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bjco8-0005Gi-HN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:46:44 -0400 Received: by mail-ua0-f195.google.com with SMTP id i55so164651uaa.1 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2016 18:46:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87zinc3850.fsf@loki.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex ter Weele Cc: guix-devel On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Alex ter Weele wrote: > I don't believe there is a standard, but different packages do it > different ways. Under my patch, guile-wm will regenerate its .desktop as > part of the build process, so its Exec= should be kept up-to-date. We should always refer to the absolute path to binaries so that we don't rely on $PATH, which would be nondeterministic. - Dave