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Simon McVittie authored
Unlike XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, these search paths are expected to be read-only, making it much less likely that a game or app component will misbehave if they contain a dangling symlink. Also unlike XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, these paths are much more likely to contain OS-related path elements that can cause container runtime regressions, such as /var/cache (steamrt/tasks#434) and /var/lib (steamrt/tasks#493). A regression risk with this change is that if a user has set for example `XDG_DATA_DIRS=/offload/data:/usr/local/share:/usr/share`, since 0.20240301.0 the result has been that /offload/data has been shared with the container, which means apps and games in a SLR container will load icons, .desktop files, etc. from that location. No longer doing this is both good and bad. It's good because it makes the container more self-contained again, but it's bad because users might have come to rely on `/offload/data` being available, which would no longer be the case after this change. steamrt/tasks#493 Signed-off-by:
Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Simon McVittie authoredUnlike XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, these search paths are expected to be read-only, making it much less likely that a game or app component will misbehave if they contain a dangling symlink. Also unlike XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, these paths are much more likely to contain OS-related path elements that can cause container runtime regressions, such as /var/cache (steamrt/tasks#434) and /var/lib (steamrt/tasks#493). A regression risk with this change is that if a user has set for example `XDG_DATA_DIRS=/offload/data:/usr/local/share:/usr/share`, since 0.20240301.0 the result has been that /offload/data has been shared with the container, which means apps and games in a SLR container will load icons, .desktop files, etc. from that location. No longer doing this is both good and bad. It's good because it makes the container more self-contained again, but it's bad because users might have come to rely on `/offload/data` being available, which would no longer be the case after this change. steamrt/tasks#493 Signed-off-by:
Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>