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Subject: Re: Patch to make DBus services directory path configurable at
From: "John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp () redhat ! com>
Date: 2006-03-17 3:20:43
Message-ID: 1142565643.2829.94.camel () remedyz ! boston ! redhat ! com
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Looks good. Patch committed.
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 01:24 +0100, Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> The reason (although a not very convincing one admittedly) for having
> it configurable at build time is that the session.conf file should be
> probably left alone to most parts after installation, especially the
> services path. Now it's obvious that this is in practical terms mostly
> a rather synthetic semantical construct since there is basically no
> difference to whether one specifies a custom path with configure or
> edits the session.conf file after installation (if it's not enough
> having a different prefix), since if one wants to do that (have a
> different services dir path) one'd do that anyway regardless of
> whether you "should or shouldn't" do it.
>
> I'm attaching a new patch that merely adds a pkgconfig variable with
> the services directory path, and i've renamed it to
> "session_bus_services_dir", and also added the output of this path to
> the configure summary (just taking the chance, it can't hurt to know
> this when you're compiling dbus).
>
>
>
>
> On 3/17/06, Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I understand the purpose of putting the services dir in
> the .pc file,
> but what is the rationale for making it configurable in
> configure.in?
> People can just edit the session.conf and .pc file if they
> want to
> change it (also, why would they want to change it at all).
> Anyhow, in
> general I see no point in adding config file elements to
> configure.in,
> just edit the config file. That's what config files are for.
>
> I think it'd be important to name the pkg-config variable
> something with
> "session" in it.
>
> My view on the session.conf file issue is that changing that
> isn't
> really supported; it's only in the config file to support
> "nonstandard"
> bus instances, or possibly someone might have the session bus
> look
> in /opt or something in a local installation.
>
> Havoc
>
>
>
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