Re: Problem setting APPLICATIONS_PATH

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

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

> On 6/12/23 13:12, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> It looks like the intent was to avoid the dependency, and that makes
>> sense.  Do you see a way to define what needs to be defined in
>> sysutils/desktop-file-utils/desktopdb.mk?  Or perhaps to set some
>> variable for the bl3 inclusion (temporarily) that causes it to just
>> define that, and not depend on the rest?
>
> I suppose we could use ${LOCALBASE} rather than
> ${BUILDLINK_PREFIX.desktop-file-utils}

If one is open-coding the other, yes, with a comment that it's a hack.
Maybe somebody else has a better idea, or is willing to do more work.