Bug 92470

Summary:	libwayland does not use a fallback when XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not available
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	Drew DeVault <sir>
Component:	wayland	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	medium	CC:	sir
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Drew DeVault 2015-10-15 12:36:41 UTC

The XDG specification asks applications to fall back to a replacement directory with similar capabilities and print a warning message, rather than to blow up.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/tree/src/wayland-server.c#n1102

Comment 1 Pekka Paalanen 2015-10-15 13:02:18 UTC

The problem with this is that we cannot arrange for a replacement with "similar capabilities" automatically. It's very hard to give all the guarantees required when you're not a distribution integrator.

I recall this has been discussed before. Some random seach hits:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2015-June/013517.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2012-December/012593.html

But the email I was actually looking for is:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-June/003935.html

It has been thought about before, and concluded that it is best to not try to make up some replacement that may or may not work correctly.

I would be tempted to close this as WONTFIX, but let's see if there are better ideas today.

Comment 2 Pekka Paalanen 2015-12-21 11:32:02 UTC

Doesn't seem like anyone had better ideas, so closing as WONTFIX.

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