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Author Bug#92428: Menu files in /usr/lib/menu violate FHS
Daniel Burrows

2004-04-28, 8:34 pm

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:17:19PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <alfie@ist.org> was heard to say:
> * Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> [2002-12-17 20:28]:
>
> I was wondering why this hasn't happend yet....
>
> And I discussed with a fellow developer and he raised some interesting
> concerns wrt/ that:
>
> Putting the menu files into /usr/share would make files in /usr/share
> depend on stuff in architecture directories. The purpose of /usr/share
> is that it is shareable amongst different machines. If you use such a
> setup an update-menus on a machine that doesn't have the package
> installed would create a menu entry that simply doesn't work.


Don't menu files say what package they belong to for exactly this
reason? For instance:

?package(gnomemeeting):needs="X11" section="Apps/Net"\
title="GnomeMeeting"\
command="/usr/bin/gnomemeeting"

I've never tested it, but I thought that update-menus was supposed to
ignore menu files corresponding to nonexistant packages.

Daniel

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