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diff --git a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn index b55bca324..28b762080 100644 --- a/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/location_of_external_plugins.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ -Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to /usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to be a more appropriate place, see: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir. +Would it be possible to make the installation location for the external +plugins (those talked to via xmlrpc) configurable? Currently, they are +installed into (and later expected to be in) /usr/lib/ikiwiki/plugins. For +the Fedora package (which I maintain), I move them to +/usr/libexec/ikiwiki/plugins. While not covered by the FHS, this seems to +be a more appropriate place, see: +https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Libexecdir. + +> This would need to be a build time configuration setting so the directory +> is built into ikiwiki for use at runtime. --[[Joey]] As a side note, the accompanying proxy.py might better be placed into some directory on the python path. + +> If someone can show how to do so without needing a Setup.py and all the +> pain that using one entails.. --[[Joey]] |