XFCE upgraded to 4.16

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 1/8/21 8:42 PM, Guido Falsi wrote:

>> I don't agree. Using a network file system for home directory if 
>> problematic at present. Most software uses sqlite databases for 
>> configurations which explicitly does not support networked file 
>> systems. and other problems could arise.
 >>
 >> Such a note should be attached to most software in the ports tree.
 >> Firefox and thunderbird (and most other browsers AFAIK) just to name
 >> two which use sqlite DBs heavily.

(This is going OT, but Sqlite, in their FAQ, only suggest against 
*multiple processes* accessing the same database over NFS.
ThunderBird works perfectly in such a setup as it's only one 
user/program accessing the database.)



> ANyway, thinking about it, if the chflag errors are just warnings like 
> you say above, then setting a custom TMPDIR will not be needed even with 
> your setup. So there is no need for a warning anyway.

Guido, you are losing sight with the heart of the problem, i.e. without 
TMPDIR, xfce4-appearance-settings tries to create a temporary directory 
in / (and obviously fails).
This has nothing to do with where home is or what filesystem it's using.

IMVVHO, if TMPDIR is something a FreeBSD will most probably NOT have, 
then it should be changed into something else. Or at least the user 
should know it must be set.

  bye
	av.