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6.3 Including other files
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HISTORICAL COMMENT BY JOOST:

MORE OUT OF CURIOSITY THAN ANYTHING ELSE, I RECENTLY READ THE KDE
MAILING LIST. IN IT I SAW SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW GOOD THE DEBIAN MENU
SYSTEM IS (WHOW, THANKS, GUYS!), BUT ONE PERSON FOUND A MISSING FEATURE:
S/HE SAID YOU COULDN'T INCLUDE OTHER FILES IN THE USER MENU FILES. WELL,
ACTUALLY, IT WAS ALREADY POSSIBLE, BUT NOT VERY WELL DOCUMENTED.

To include the contents of the file '/usr/share/menu/somefile', add this
to your menu file:

     !include /usr/share/menu/somefile

Apart from that, it is of course possible to make the menu entry file
executable ('chmod a+x ~/.menu/package'), and do something like

     #!/bin/sh
     cat  /usr/share/menu/somefile
     sed -e  "/unwanted_entry/s/?package(/?package(notinstalled./" \
          /usr/share/menu/someotherfile

to get the same effect, with the added flexibility of being able to
filter out unwanted lines.