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

[Maxim Kammerer]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:
> I don't know the current situation, but I recall that in the past,
> some games pounded away directly on the VGA hardware for speed, or
> called libraries that did so.

I think that the main sentiment in this thread is that, while
/usr/games have found some uses in Gentoo “because it's there”, it is
pure legacy. However, /usr/games and associated directories *are* part
of the FHS [1], and are older than X [2].

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
[2] http://unix-tree.huihoo.org/V7/

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Maxim Kammerer
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