X11 in Macports

nox n.oxyde at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 01:16:52 PST 2008


Le 23 nov. 08 à 21:45, Jeremy Huddleston a écrit :

>
> On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:23, Joshua Root wrote:
>
>> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>>> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Something like how .app bundles don't work fully outside an
>>>>> /Applications location or so.
>>>>
>>>> Uhm... .app bundles should work outside /Applications
>>>
>>> Sure, but there was something about Services or other features that
>>> works from /Applications/MacPorts but not from ${prefix}/ 
>>> Applications ?
>>
>> The app doesn't automatically get registered with LaunchServices,  
>> so the
>> file type associations and whatnot aren't set up.
>
> Was this maybe a bug in Tiger?  I have the exact opposite problem?   
> I can't figure out how to make LaunchServices NOT register a .app  
> that is in my development space or DISTROOT... I can't tell you how  
> many times I've had a problem because LaunchServices preferred / 
> Users/jeremy/src/freedesktop/pkg/X11/Applications/Utilities/X11.app  
> over /Applications/Utilities/X11.app

$HOME is a different thing, LaunchServices discover applications in  
this directory.
Not in ${prefix}.


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