Bug 360337

Summary:	sci-geosciences/grass-6.4.0 .desktop file $TERM trouble
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ryan Hill (RETIRED) <rhill>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Sam Jorna (wraeth) <wraeth>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	kripton, nerdboy, proxy-maint, sci-geosciences
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-03-24 20:42:36 UTC

"$TERM" doesn't print necessarily the name of the terminal executable.  for example, here with konsole:

$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

with urxvt:
$ echo $TERM
rxvt-unicode

Even if it did, the ebuild would be hardcoding whatever console was used to build the package into the desktop file.  If someone changed consoles, it would break.

I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is.  Depend on xterm and force it?

Comment 1 Sam Jorna (wraeth) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-10-19 11:14:05 UTC

Closing as OBSOLETE - sci-geosciences/grass-7.0.1 has been added to the tree as per bug 514514 and subsequently revbumped.