From: Mikhail Kryshen <mikhail@kryshen.net>
To: Tirifto <tirifto@posteo.cz>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Report on environment variable issues
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:30:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r24wpzcq.fsf@home.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190903212550.517dbf78@posteo.cz>
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Tirifto <tirifto@posteo.cz> writes:
> After some investigation, it turned out that GNOME Shell falls back on
> a certain default value when the variable is empty, which already
> contains paths that GNOME Shell needs to function properly. So when the
> user extends the existing value of ‘$XDG_DATA_DIRS’ with another path,
> the variable is no longer empty, so GNOME Shell never gets to fall back
> to the paths it actually needs, and crashes instead.
GNOME does this in accordance with XDG Base Directory Specification, see
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
"If $XDG_DATA_DIRS is either not set or empty, a value equal to
/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/ should be used."
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Mikhail
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-04 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-03 19:25 Report on environment variable issues Tirifto
2019-09-04 2:30 ` Mikhail Kryshen [this message]
2019-09-06 1:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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