>>>>> Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes:
>>>>> Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 12:59 +0700, Ivan Shmakov a écrit :
[Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, for no good reason at all.]
>> Currently, it's not possible for the user to specify an arbitrary
>> home directory for most of the Glib-based packages (such as, e. g.,
>> Gimp [3].)
> Yes, it is. Use G_HOME.
Unfortunately, this variable isn't supported outside of Debian,
and cannot be relied upon in portable scripts.
AIUI, as long as the GNOME packages are considered, the
XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, and XDG_CACHE_HOME should be
used instead (where supported.) [1] That being said, there're
also non-GNOME packages that use GLib, which may also be
affected due to the current g_get_home_dir () behavior.
>> I therefore suggest to change g_get_home_dir () to follow the usual
>> Unix convention of using ${HOME} as the user's home directory,
>> falling back to getpwuid ()->pw_dir should HOME be non-existent or
>> empty, or, additionally, should it point to a directory not owned by
>> the current user, or on which he or she has no executable
>> permission, unless the current user is ‘root’ (UID 0.)
> Certainly not. This behavior is here for several reasons,
I believe that they were all mentioned by now in the
gtk-devel-list@ discussion [2] (as well as the reasons to do it
the other way around, just as the most part of Debian currently
does.) Do you have anything specific to add?
TIA.
> and in any case we are not going to diverge from upstream by
> introducing such fundamental API breakage.
Also to note [1]:
--cut--
FWIW, the default values for those are supposed to be derived from $HOME
according to the XDG Basedir spec. So if the spec is to be taken
literally it seems like we should be using $HOME instead of
g_get_home_dir ().
--cut--
While this issue is being discussed upstream, I suggest that the
bug remains open.
TIA.
[1] news:506480fe.4060...@gnome.org,
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general/22728
[2] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.devel.general/22721
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