On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-23 at 17:10 +0100, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> Helps making pulseaudio relocatable > > Could you provide more information in the commit message about what use > case requires pulseaudio to be relocatable? In this particular case is making pulseaudio part of a snap file [1] But it seems somehow the problem we were having has been solved in a different way by a colleague, i need to find out what he did and if we still want to pursue this patch approach or not. Cheers, Albert [1] http://snapcraft.io/ > > The existing convention for environment variable names is to use > "PULSE_" as the prefix, and I think this patch should use the same > convention. > > I think it would be better to add an environment variable for the data > directory (/usr/share/pulseaudio). If and when we install more things > to the data directory in the future, we would have to create more > environment variables just to keep the relocation support working if > each thing in the data directory needs a separate environment variable. > > -- > Tanu > > https://www.patreon.com/tanuk > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
