Re: Search paths vs. environment variables that designate a single file

[Ludovic Courtès]

宋文武 <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

>> One way might be to augment ‘search-path-specification’ to support
>> “single-item search paths” that basically designate a single file.
>>
> Yes, but some conflicted inputs will bring headahce to builder.
> For 'GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE', both gdk-pixbuf and librsvg have
> loaders.cache file, how we ensure the one from librsvg is selected?

I imagine the best we could do is to have a choose-first and a
choose-last policy, but I can’t imagine us adding a
for-GTK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE-make-sure-to-choose-librsvg-over-gdk-pixbuf.

So if that’s really the kind of policy that we want to express, we need
to find something else.

Ludo’.