[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] #573250 -- conflict between policy and mozilla-devscripts about file placement

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:58:45AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 03:13 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 03:56:02AM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> >> Latest idea:
> >>
> >> Create a (nearly) empty file
> >> in /etc/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>.js that contains a
> >> commented header describing where to find the config file.
> >> Create a link
> >> in /usr/{share,lib}/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>/defaults/preferences/000system.js pointing to /etc/xul-ext/<packagename-without-xul-ext>.js
> >>
> >> An updated patch is welcome.
> >>
> >> Any objection against this approach?
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure the preferences files are read by filename order.
> > If that's the case, the system preferences should be read after the
> > others.
> > But I think they are read in readdir() order...
> 
> urg.  if they're evaluated in readdir() order, then we can't guarantee
> which preferences will take effect last, can we?  (i'm assuming we're in
> a last-match-wins scenario, as the files are simple javascript.

Actually checking is better than assuming ;)