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On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:44:27 +1100, Bruno Postle  
<1271563@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu 30-Jan-2014 at 22:08 -0000, tduell wrote:
>> Do you mean it is OK to install to $DATADIR/appdata whatever $PREFIX?
>> It now looks to me like I should be using the fixed path
>> "/usr/share/appdata" .
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> The only advantage of installing to /usr/local is that you can
> delete this folder and get back to a clean system.  If we are
> installing some stuff to /usr and other stuff to /usr/local then we
> are just making a mess - on a Linux distribution all files in /usr
> are typically controlled by the package manager.
>
> Also it should be possible to do an install as a normal user to a
> private folder (e.g. when building rpm packages), this will fail if
> we try to create files in /usr/share.

None of that makes it any clearer to me as to what we should be doing.
Sorry, it's probably just the way my mind works!

Cheers,
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Regards,
Terry Duell

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1271563

Title:
  Please provide an AppData file

Status in Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Please add a AppData file for Hugin, else it looks really bad in the
  GNOME Software Center. See
  http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ for details; thanks!

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