I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old

Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by dotancohen on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:03AM (#29189415)

  > the system kept trying to replace folders in their original places.

This is the file that you want:

  $ cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs 
  XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
  XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
  XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:47AM (#29190042)

That helps, but be warned that there are still programs running around that just hardcode their paths

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by kaba0 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:42PM (#29191412)

Cries in nixpkgs

(Anyone who tried to package a program that hardcodes the “usual” binary paths know the pain)

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by account42 on Friday November 12, 2021 @04:10AM (#29197498)

Doesn't nix itself hardcode the nix store path though?

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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by kaba0 on Friday November 12, 2021 @05:57AM (#29198052)

Afaik there is an option to change it, but it is not advisable as that will break the binary cache and you are left with compiling everything yourself. This is due to a technical limitation in that different packages can contain paths everywhere and thus they are inherently part of the resulting hash, on which other packages can depend.

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