[Fedora-packaging] Re: GTK+ icon cache "bugs" on ScriptletSnippets

[Christopher Stone]

On 9/23/06, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Marcin Garski wrote:
>
> > My proposed resolution for this bug can be found in
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/206860 but I will also paste it here:
> >
> > if [ -x %{_bindir}/gtk-update-icon-cache ]; then
> >         if [ -f %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor/index.theme ]; then
> >                 touch --no-create %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor || :
> >                 %{_bindir}/gtk-update-icon-cache --quiet
> > %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor || :
> >         fi
> > fi
>
> I'd argue to greatly simplify the above to just:
> gtk-update-icon-cache -q %{_datadir}/icons/hicolor 2>/dev/null ||:
> but that's just me.
>
> Actually, I'd argue this, imo, *stooopid* gtk-update-* crud doesn't
> belong in packages at all, but again, that's just me, or wait, me and
> *lots* of others too:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com//170335

+1 on stupidity comment.  Just curious, how come KDE doesn't have to
do such stupid things?

Let's please remove gtk+ stupidity from spec files.

Thanks.