21 Nov
2024
21 Nov
'24
12:46 a.m.
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 16:16 (-0600), Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 11/20/24 11:49 AM, Jim via tde-users wrote:
>> I'm guessing many TDE users do not experience this issue because they do
>> not use multiple DEs.
> This sentence confuses me. If ffx is whining
about the TDE entry in
> XDG_DATA_DIRS, then what does multiple DEs have to do with this? Is it not
> the case that everyone with TDE installed will have that TDE dir in their
> XDG_DATA_DIRS variable? (Not that everyone uses ffx, but that is
> orthogonal to how many DEs one uses).
Check the order of the $XDG_DATA_DIRS variable. If
/opt/trinity/share is
given precedence then FF will look there before looking in /usr/share. Look
in /etc/profile.d/tde.sh, created from the tdebase package.
Nope, it is last:
<prompt> echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/opt/trinity/share
I guess ffx is being thorough. (Or obsessive compulsive, or ...)
> Are you familiar with Ray V's slackbuild
scripts
> (https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds) ? Or are these the ones that
> you are referring to above?
Yes, those are the scripts I refer. There are many
missing packages,
likely because the author does not need or want them.
Makes sense!
Some of the unorthodox design is modifying the root
user's .bashrc or
using EOF to create package descriptions and patches. The scripts create
usable packages, but are a far cry from traditional Slackware or SBo
build scripts. I find the scripts frustrating to use and maintain.
I will admit that I haven't looked into them too closely. On my system
root's bashrc has just
source /etc/profile
Hmmm... did the TDE build scripts do that? (If so, that is a bit
antisocial and a bit peculiar.)
> I recognize these are unorthodox SlackBuild
scripts (since, for example,
> they have the unmitigated gall to download the source themselves :-),
Not so unusual. Many SBo and alienbob build scripts do
this.
Huh. I just did a grep for wget, and I see that of the SBo
packages I have (I was just surprised to see there are 400 of them on my
system), about 10 or 15 do downloads. I stand corrected about the
unmitigated gall. :-)
Cheers.
Jim