Re: [gentoo-dev] Do we need games group and all that game prefixes?

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:26:14AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote

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

  It was more along the lines of svgalib.  See...
http://linux.die.net/man/7/svgalib  Is that even in the tree anymore?
If not, that's one less reason to keep games special.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>