XDG-UTILS.ECLASS

Section: eclass-manpages (5)
Updated: Mar 2024
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NAME

xdg-utils.eclass - Auxiliary functions commonly used by XDG compliant packages.

DESCRIPTION

This eclass provides a set of auxiliary functions needed by most XDG compliant packages. It provides XDG stack related functions such as:
 * GTK/Qt5 icon theme cache management
 * XDG .desktop files cache management
 * XDG mime information database management

SUPPORTED EAPIS

5 6 7 8

FUNCTIONS

xdg_environment_reset
Clean up environment for clean builds.
xdg_desktop_database_update
Updates the .desktop files database. Generates a list of mimetypes linked to applications that can handle them
xdg_icon_cache_update
Updates icon theme cache files under /usr/share/icons. This function should be called from pkg_postinst and pkg_postrm.
xdg_mimeinfo_database_update
Update the mime database. Creates a general list of mime types from several sources

AUTHORS

Original author: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>

MAINTAINERS

gnome@gentoo.org
freedesktop-bugs@gentoo.org

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via https://bugs.gentoo.org/

FILES

xdg-utils.eclass

SEE ALSO

ebuild(5)
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/eclass/xdg-utils.eclass


Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
SUPPORTED EAPIS
FUNCTIONS
AUTHORS
MAINTAINERS
REPORTING BUGS
FILES
SEE ALSO

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