Re: Re: --vendor fedora, rationale/motivation?

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Axel Thimm wrote:

this discussion resulted in some recommendations in the guidelines and
elsewhere, but old packages are supposed to keep any naming (vendor)
they used for backwards compatibility with menu editors, correct?

Yep, that is the primary(only?) motivation for keeping dir+vendor+desktop_file_name constant.

What do you think?

I agree with your sentiments. Package maintainers need to weigh the pros/cons of continuing the use of --vendor=fedora. If you feel the advantages of dropping it outweigh the disadvantage of possibly breaking users' customized menus, I see no problem with that.

-- Rex

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