On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Given it does not matter, there is no preference (at least from me).
Effectively true, but conceptually I think I would prefer an explicit slash, which does not rely on the implicit $PWD == /. Take again the example from my original email, post_install() { update-desktop-database -q gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor } Since `update-desktop-database` without a directory specified defaults to /usr/share/applications, the above is equivalent to, post_install() { update-desktop-database -q /usr/share/applications gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor } which is not consistent. Therefore, it should be: post_install() { update-desktop-database -q gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor } or, alternatively, consistently remove the leading slash, post_install() { update-desktop-database -q usr/share/applications gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor } But since a leading slash doesn't sacrifice any flexibility, I prefer an explicit slash everywhere.