[Bug 240154] graphics/gimp-app: gimptool installs plugins into wrong directory

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--- Comment #4 from Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt at freebsd.org> ---
(In reply to Ting-Wei Lan from comment #3)
I'd still argue that the real bug is upstream: the "real" plugin directory
value is set in configure.ac and propagated via config.h GIMPPLUGINDIR to all
the places where it might be needed. Deducing some plugindir by any other means
is just inconsistent, even if it gives the same value as the upstream default.

Anyways, the more important question is how to fix this situation:
FreeBSD is settings it's own gimpplugindir "since forever" (ports r46408 from
18 years ago) - to match FreeBSD's filesystem hierarchy which is ever so
slightly different from what that Linux does.
a) we could drop that modification, but then we'd have to at least rebuild all
the plugins which were installed in the "modified" path (plus whatever users
built and installed on their own)
b) or we modify gimptool to use the declared path and not make up another path

a might be the cleaner option (if we could argue that the plugins may live
under lib/), but b looks like it will cause less breakage, so.

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