On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Given it does not matter, there is no preference (at least from me).
>
Effectively true, but conceptually I think I would prefer an explicit
slash, which does not rely on the implicit $PWD == /.
Take again the example from my original email,
post_install() {
update-desktop-database -q
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
Since `update-desktop-database` without a directory specified defaults
to /usr/share/applications, the above is equivalent to,
post_install() {
update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
which is not consistent. Therefore, it should be:
post_install() {
update-desktop-database -q
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
or, alternatively, consistently remove the leading slash,
post_install() {
update-desktop-database -q usr/share/applications
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
}
But since a leading slash doesn't sacrifice any flexibility, I prefer
an explicit slash everywhere.
