On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:15:32AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Hi,
> > they should configure it properly. If they don't want to use xdg-open,
> > then get rid of xdg-utils and LyX configure will pick the next possible
> > viewer...
>
> you can not rid of xdg-utils simply - they are in dependencies of other
> packages
> (eg cups here).
I feared that it could end this way. Ok now I'm feeling sorry for heaving
pushed this change.
Well let's see what we can do now to mitigate more damage.
I don't know how long it will take to puch some of the mime stuff integrated
in Debian and Fedora(?) and maybe others upstream.
Would it help to revert the patch until that's sorted out of would that only
remove the pressure?
I don't think that it would help a lot to hack parts of the mime detection
or DE detection stuff into the configure.py and make it more complex without
really solving the initial problem I hoped to solve.
So the only to viable options I see are
a) remove the xdg-open calls
aa) and maybe replace them with a list of the distro specific tools like
mimeopen or run-mailcap (pretty long and ugly list ...)
b) try push some changes to xdg-open and hope for a fast adoption rate within
the Linux distribution oekosystem.
I guess a and aa) would be the faster once.
Did other distributions beside Gentoo break? Maybe some BSD?
Cheers,
Sven
