On Wed, 18 Dec 2019, Guillem Jover wrote: > > We could add hundreds of path-based triggers, one for each binary that we > > reference in our desktop files but we would likely miss any path > > change... and it would be a bit tedious to maintain. > > I checked the kali package, and the solutions that came to mind were to > use path-based triggers either on each executable, or just on the PATH > directories. The first has the problem that you mention about moving > directories, but the second does not. > > Then instead of looking up these in the dpkg database you could search > the PATH for the programs, because that's what the .desktop files depend > on anyway.
Indeed, thanks for the suggestion! Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
