Re: Problem setting APPLICATIONS_PATH

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Mark Davies <mark%ecs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost> writes:

> When sysutils/desktop-file-utils/desktopdb.mk was modified last year
> to not include sysutils/desktop-file-utils/buildlink3.mk, that meant
> that ${BUILDLINK_PREFIX.desktop-file-utils} is not defined.
>
> so any package including desktop-file-utils/desktopdb.mk is not
> getting APPLICATIONS_PATH set correctly in their INSTALL and DEINSTALL
> scripts (its set to /share/applications rather than
> /usr/pkg/share/applications)

Why was it modified?  Was it done correctly?   It sounds like you are
saying that desktopdb.mk does need to include the above bl3, and that
the change before was wrong, and should perhaps be reverted.  But you
didn't say that, even though you could have, so it feels like I am
missing something.