On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 16:30 +0200, Federico Bruni wrote: > Hi folks > > While trying to figure out a way to install some desktop specific files > (such as APP.desktop or APP.appdata.xml) within the installation prefix > (instead of python installation) using setuptools, I started wondering > if it's actually a good idea. > Is this something that should be handled by Linux packagers (as it is > now)? > > The application I'm working on (upstream) to improve the desktop > related files is Frescobaldi. > As you can see here¹, the desktop file is copied in the right > directory thanks to the spec file. > > Some reasons to keep this behaviour: > > - setuptools doesn't provide a way to uninstall a package so you have > to do it manually, while a package removes all the installed files > - if you want to run a python package from source, there's no need to > install it > > I'd be interested to know your thoughts. FWIW, I've both done it and *not* done it, and my thoughts were similar to yours. You can make it work but it's not the best thing in the world. For really simple things I'd say it's probably OK, just include a warning about the uninstall problem - there is kinda a workaround for that, IIRC, you can use pip to uninstall the module and it'll wipe the data files too. For more complicated things you might want to consider shipping a more generic deployment process using a Makefile or something, which calls setup.py but installs and removes the other bits itself. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
