Forwarding from a downstream enhancement request:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207902

Downstream correspondence follows.  If other distros are doing it then it might be worth evaluating for upstream inclusion.  No strong feelings one way or the other, personally.


Opened by Linus Walleij (triad@df.lth.se) on 2006-09-25 05:13 EST

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

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Comment #1 From Matthew Barnes (mbarnes@redhat.com) on 2006-09-25 13:17 EST

It's not impossible.  Inconvenient, maybe.

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

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Comment #2 From Linus Walleij (triad@df.lth.se) on 2006-09-25 15:23 EST

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.