site_data_dir is wrong on Kubuntu #121
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The freedesktop specification states that XDG_DATA_DIRS is a preference ordered list of where data should be searched (as opposed by where applications should store data). Therefore, for multipath=False, which is used by applications to determine a path to store data, this can lead to unintended paths, as can be seen under issue ActiveState#121. This commit changes the default directory in this case to the distribution independent '/usr/local/share'.
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The freedesktop specification states that XDG_DATA_DIRS is a preference ordered list of where data should be searched (as opposed by where applications should store data). Therefore, for multipath=False, which is used by applications to determine a path to store data, this can lead to unintended paths, as can be seen under issue ActiveState#121. This commit changes the default directory in this case to the distribution independent '/usr/local/share'.
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The freedesktop specification states that $XDG_DATA_DIRS is a preference ordered list of where data should be searched (as opposed to where applications should store data). Therefore, for multipath=False, which is used by applications to determine a path to store data, this can lead to unintended paths, as can be seen under issue ActiveState#121. This commit changes the default directory in this case to the distribution independent '/usr/local/share'.
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The freedesktop specification states that $XDG_DATA_DIRS is a preference ordered list of where data should be searched (as opposed to where applications should store data). Therefore, for multipath=False, which is used by applications to determine a path to store data, this can lead to unintended paths, as can be seen under issue ActiveState#121. This commit changes the default directory in this case to the distribution independent '/usr/local/share'.
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Btw. sorry for the amends, I did not realize they show up here. Perhaps it at least brings the reader a smile as they mostly differ in slight commit message language improvements. And particularly sorry for the force-push after the pull request, I did not expect to have made an amend afterwards that would cause it to be a problem. At least there is a lesson learned. ... |
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Me too, on Fedora 33 I have: appdirs.site_data_dir("XXX")
/home/MYUSER/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/XXX'and on command line: $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/home/MYUSER/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop |
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site_data_dir() returns '/usr/share/plasma', which is a directory of KDE Plasma. Expected would be e.g. '/usr/share' or '/usr/local/share/'. This is because site_data_dir uses $XDG_DATA_DIRS which at least under Kubuntu 18.10 is '/usr/share/plasma:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop'.
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