Re: gEDA-dev: add-on dir name for pcb

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> - Wouldn't it be better to have a config file (a list of file names) to
> load instead of loading all hids found in specific dirs? That would allow
> the user to load hids from non-default directories or to turn off loading
> hids without renaming or deleting the lib files.

That makes it difficult to install hids through, say, an rpm, because
it would need to modify an existing file.  Many of linux's configury
works this way; by adding file fragments to a .d directory rather than
modifying a shared config file; installing all available hids in a
directory is a similar practice.

> - Where do hid-specific data files go? I mean if a hid uses data files for
> some reason, we should name default dir for them as well.

That's mostly up to the hid; we can provide some global variable that
reflects $prefix if it wants to use that, or the hid can create an
attribute for the user to specify directly.


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