[91009] trunk/base

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 05:12, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 03/22/2012 05:35 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> Alternately, do we have any interest in changing the default
>> applications_dir to ${prefix}/Applications (keeping a symlink to that
>> in /Applications/MacPorts)?
> 
> As far as I remember previous discussions there is some difference in
> the way LaunchServices handles application bundles in specific
> locations. File associations are only registered automatically from some
> known locations such as /Applications or ~/Applications; for other
> directories you first have to open them in Finder once to register the
> application bundle with LaunchServices.

I've had my applications_dir set to ${prefix}/Applications for years and it's worked fine for me, but I can't say whether I've encountered the LaunchServices issue you mention... I don't think I have any MacPorts applications that have file associations.