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On 05/21/2012 10:17 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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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I suppose you mean the "XFree86-DGA extension", USE="dga"? |
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$ cd $(portageq envvar PORTDIR) |
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$ grep -r IUSE.*dga */*/*.ebuild |
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http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/x11-libs/libXxf86dga |
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But I fail to see how that is relavent with this thread at all, using |
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the extension is controlled by the xorg-server (Xorg) which is suid root |
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and unrelated to 'games' (despite being used by some). |
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- Samuli |
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