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On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> - changing ownership and permissions of all the files.
As a side note: why is /usr/games owned by uid "games"? Does
games_pkg_setup() in games.eclass do that? What's the point of user
"games" (as opposed to group with same name)?
> Do we really need all of this poor man's 'you shall not play our
> games'? I don't think we're using anything like /usr/office & office
> group, or /usr/random-programs-i-dont-like.
Games are rather unique in that they sometimes keep scores across
multiple users.
> Random obscurity only makes things harder. And proves no point unless
> we're going to ensure that all web browsers, ssh clients and other
> applications in danger of being used to play games.
Sometimes users do not have Internet access or even ability to connect
removable media.
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Maxim Kammerer
Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute)
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