Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-07 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Didier, Didier Kryn writes: >     My first investigations indicate that there is provision in > Freedesktop.org to put icons and launchers under $HOME/.local, but > nothing for /usr/local. I do not think that ~/.local is related to /usr/local in any meaningfull way. /usr/local is for the adm

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-08 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Didier, Didier Kryn writes: > But the launchers are to be installed/uninstalled by every user in > their own ~/.local What happens, if you add another user after installation? AFAIU default launchers should be in a global place. benny ___ Dng maili

Re: [DNG] merged /usr breakage

2022-01-09 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Didier, >> Didier Kryn writes: >>> But the launchers are to be installed/uninstalled by every user in >>> their own ~/.local benny wrote: >> What happens, if you add another user after installation? AFAIU default >> launchers should be in a global place. Didier Kryn writes: >     We want to

Re: [DNG] bash / quote weirdness

2022-01-13 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Steve, Steve Litt writes: > [slitt@mydesk ~]$ "cat -n" /etc/fstab | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5 > bash: cat -n: command not found > [slitt@mydesk ~]$ "cat -n /etc/fstab" | cut -b 1-20 | head -n5 > bash: cat -n /etc/fstab: No such file or directory > [slitt@mydesk ~]$ Different code paths within B

Re: [DNG] bash / quote weirdness

2022-01-14 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Steve, > Benjamin Riefenstahl said on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:19:23 +0100 >>Different code paths within Bash. [...] Steve Litt writes: > This is true, but not the explanation for this particular behavior, as > follows: > > [slitt@mydesk ~]$ /usr/bin/cat -n /etc/fstab | c

Re: [DNG] "xdg-open" alternative for "open" ... what?

2022-02-18 Thread Benjamin Riefenstahl
Hi Nicholas, "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via Dng" writes: > What's your take on this? They might have wanted to get compatibility with macOS whose "open" tool serves the same purpose. Just my 2c, benny ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglis