diff --git a/bin/build_detector.sh b/bin/build_detector.sh
index 827ea2873f731a47e7574a619fb1b2e263bc605d..7d9ef36a50b0c009f34be1a229209bfa81a1ae6b 100755
--- a/bin/build_detector.sh
+++ b/bin/build_detector.sh
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 ## - DETECTOR: the detector package we want to use for this benchmark
 ## - LOCAL_PREFIX:     location where local packages should be installed
 ## - LOCAL_DATA_PATH:  local storage for pipeline jobs
-## - DETECTOR_PREFIX:  prefix for the detector definitions 
+## - DETECTOR_PREFIX:  prefix for the detector definition repositories
 ## - DETECTOR_PATH:    full path for the detector definitions
-##                     this is the same as ${DETECTOR_PREFIX}/${DETECTOR}
+##                     this is the same as ${LOCAL_PREFIX}/share/${DETECTOR}
 
 if [ -n "${LOCAL_PREFIX}" ] ; then 
   source .local/bin/env.sh
diff --git a/bin/env.sh b/bin/env.sh
index 1763a48d9d77872a8b7089aa44ff1cd50b8b7326..9db3a4d1664ca1fabc68470e7a160dcc6fa86aaa 100755
--- a/bin/env.sh
+++ b/bin/env.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 ##  - LOCAL_PREFIX:           prefix for packages installed during the benchmark
 ##  - LOCAL_DATA_PATH:        local storage for pipeline jobs
 ##  - DETECTOR_PREFIX:        prefix for the detector definitions
-##  - DETECTOR_PATH:          actual path with the detector definitions
+##  - DETECTOR_PATH:          root path to locally installed detector definition xml files
 ##
 ## Finally, it makes sure LOCAL_PREFIX and JUGGLER_PREFIX are added to PATH
 ## and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
@@ -121,12 +121,12 @@ LOCAL_PREFIX=".local"
 mkdir -p "${LOCAL_PREFIX}"
 export LOCAL_PREFIX=`realpath ${LOCAL_PREFIX}`
 
-## detector prefix: prefix for the detector definitions
+## detector prefix: prefix for the detector definition repositories
 export DETECTOR_PREFIX="${LOCAL_PREFIX}/detector"
 mkdir -p ${DETECTOR_PREFIX}
 
-## detector path: actual detector definition path
-export DETECTOR_PATH="${DETECTOR_PREFIX}/${DETECTOR}"
+## detector path: root path to locally installed detector definition xml files
+export DETECTOR_PATH="${LOCAL_PREFIX}/share/${DETECTOR}"
 
 ## build dir for ROOT to put its binaries etc.
 export ROOT_BUILD_DIR=$LOCAL_PREFIX/root_build