Bug 207902

Summary:	Provide symlinks to tools in /usr/libexec/evolution/2.6
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Linus Walleij <triad>
Component:	evolution	Assignee:	Matthew Barnes <mbarnes>
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Description Linus Walleij 2006-09-25 09:13:17 UTC

It is impossible to acces handy command-line tools in 
/usr/libexec/evolution/2.6 like evolution-export-addressbook
etc. A good idea would be to provide symlinks into /usr/bin
for these, I think that's how other distributions does it.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.6.3-1.fc5.5

Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2006-09-25 17:17:20 UTC

It's not impossible.  Inconvenient, maybe.

If it's something you use frequently, why not just add it to your PATH?

Comment 2 Linus Walleij 2006-09-25 19:23:19 UTC

Yeah well it's not impossible, just tricky. I'm not thinking
about myself but semi-experienced users here.

Hm, any user wanting to access it using a custom $PATH will
have to maintain their $PATH whenever Evolution release bumps
to 2.7 and it breaks. Doing symlinks would avoid that and
and also make it more convenient without loosing anything I
think.

Debian and Ubuntu filelist:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&word=evolution&version=unstable&arch=i386
They chose to create symlinks for:
usr/bin/csv2vcard
usr/bin/evolution-addressbook-export

Arguably the two more useful programs.

I can make a patch for evolution.conf if you like.

Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2007-01-02 16:43:18 UTC

Forwarding this request upstream.  Please refer to [1] for further updates.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391941

Comment 4 Linus Walleij 2007-01-02 17:21:45 UTC

Thanks Matthew.