Bug 123458 - audacious creates a broken symlink
Bug#: 123458 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: chainsaw@gentoo.org Reported By: chutz@gg3.net
Component: Applications
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Summary: audacious creates a broken symlink
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-02-20 00:16 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-02-20 00:16 0000
Steps to reproduce:

1. emerge audacious
2. 
ls -l /usr/share/audacious/Skins/
total 1
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root  23 Feb 20 15:01 * -> /usr/share/xmms/Skins/*
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 544 Feb 20 15:01 Default
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 544 Feb 20 15:01 gentoo_ice

Expected: That star there was unexpected because I had nothing in
/usr/share/xmms/Skins. Anyway, the idea is quite wrong since installing another
xmms skin after audacious has been installed would not make it available to
audacious.

Is this symlinking necessary at all? Audacious supports the SKINSDIR variable,
which can be a colon-separated list of paths. Why not set SKINSDIR in
/etc/env.d and forget the symlinks?

------- Comment #1 From Tony Vroon 2006-02-20 15:28:19 0000 -------
It was inherited from the beep-media-player ebuild, this was submitted in bug
#70697. Had no use for this myself, but by request the xmms-themes/bmp-themes
ebuild just got ported to audacious-themes.
Removing it from both ebuilds. Thanks for your bug report :)