[csw-maintainers] update-mime-database said: Note that '/opt/csw/share' is not in the search path

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski's message of Tue Mar 09 11:43:34 -0500 2010:
>>
>>> Hardcoded in update-mime-database.c.
>>>                 env = "/usr/local/share/"PATH_SEPARATOR"/usr/share/";
>>
>> If the project is using autoconf, this could be quickly patched to use
>> $(datadir):/usr/local/share...I'd patch that for you if you don't like
>> mucking with autoconf.
>>
>
> well, however it happens,  we should patch update-mime-database to not
> look under /usr/local - that's just a bad idea all 'round.

There's also the question whether patching update-mime-database.c will
have any effect on the client applications.  Chances are, there will
be none.