[gentoo-dev] Re: The request to abolish games team policy

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Jonathan Callen wrote:

> On 07/08/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> It certainly differs between distros. Debian generally uses
>> /usr/games and has a games group for score files. Fedora has chosen
>> to ignore the FHS and installs everything in /usr/bin. IIUC, they
>> also use an own group for each game if it needs to write shared
>> score files. [1]
>>
>> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.games/365

> Just to clarify, the current Gentoo policy is that game executables
> go in /usr/games/bin and libraries go in /usr/games/$(get_libdir).
> Debian policy follows FHS in that games binaries go directly in
> /usr/games and games libraries go in the same directory as other
> libraries.

I see. So Gentoo policy differs from FHS (and from other major
distros).

FHS also says that static data files should go in /usr/share/games,
whereas on my system I see both /usr/share/games and /usr/games/share.

Ulrich