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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:16:44PM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote |
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> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Micha?? G??rny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > - changing ownership and permissions of all the files. |
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> As a side note: why is /usr/games owned by uid "games"? Does |
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> games_pkg_setup() in games.eclass do that? What's the point of user |
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> "games" (as opposed to group with same name)? |
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I don't know the current situation, but I recall that in the past, |
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some games pounded away directly on the VGA hardware for speed, or |
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called libraries that did so. This, of course might be dangerous to |
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allow regular-user programs to do. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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