Re: [gentoo-dev] gnome-games.eclass: Eclass for installing all gnome-games

[Pacho Ramos]

El jue, 02-05-2013 a las 17:16 +0200, hasufell escribió:
> On 05/02/2013 05:12 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El jue, 02-05-2013 a las 15:54 +0200, hasufell escribió:
> >> On 05/02/2013 03:40 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >>> El jue, 02-05-2013 a las 14:34 +0200, hasufell escribió:
> >>>> On 05/02/2013 12:41 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> >>>>> gnome-games was splitted in separate packages per game and, then, we
> >>>>> need an eclass to also set proper settings inherited from gnome2 and
> >>>>> games eclasses. This should also solve:
> >>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432848
> >>>>>
> >>>>> eclass and ebuild (games-puzzle/five-or-more) to try attached
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This does not honour GAMES_DATADIR afais.
> >>>
> >>> They cannot honor it since installing all stuff under /usr/share/games
> >>> will lead to them even failing to start (I tried it before).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Why?
> >>
> >> It's a common problem that people hardcode data dir destination in their
> >> source files, assuming that people only want to install into /usr/share.
> >> That is simply a bug and needs to be fixed in the package (it also means
> >> it will probably fail for /usr/local and many other usecases, so this is
> >> not even a gentoo specific bug).
> >>
> >> You cannot fix that on eclass level and it is not a reason to drop
> >> supporting GAMES_DATADIR variable. That is inconsistent and does not
> >> make sense. You would even get mixed permissions unless you fix that up too.
> >>
> >
> > I don't understand why games team makes all this prefix work, isn't
> > changing permissions of installed files enough?
> >
> > I doubt if upstream will be ok with installing
> > schemas/translations/gtk-doc stuff under this prefix :/
> >
>
> schemas/translations/gtk-doc don't need to be installed under that
> prefix. Sometimes you have to seperate install locations, otherwise you
> would end up getting pixmaps in /usr/share/games/pixmaps and such.
>
> That sometimes needs some micro-management. Datafiles should _always_
> have a seperate switch to choose the destination.

This is another attempt, some pending problems are:
- localedir is wrongly chosen
- it installs /var stuff under /var/games/games instead of /var/games :S