Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 10737] Wireshark should be installing icons as part of "ma
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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:26:57 +0000

Comment # 30 on bug 10737 from 
(In reply to Guy Harris from comment #28)
> Sadly, the whole "path argument variable" notion, introduced lo these many
> decades ago with $PATH, and followed by $MANPATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
> $XFILESEARCHPATH and $XDG_DATA_DIRS and so on, doesn't work all that well
> with installing stuff in unusual places - you end up having to update those
> things manually.  It works even less well with the otherwise-somewhat-nice
> self-contained application notion, as per earlier comments.

The (relatively) modern idea of packages dropping files into directories in
order to tell the OS, for example, "add /opt/wireshark/bin to $PATH"[1] is a
big step in the right direction for this kind of thing.  I used to have to
write scripts to modify /etc/profile to get that kind of thing done ;-(.

[1] by putting a file named, for example, /etc/profile.d/wireshark.sh on modern
Linux (or at least Redhat-based Linux) systems

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