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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Mon, 7 Jul 2014, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> iii. that the games group along with the game-specific install tree |
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>> should be deprecated and phased out. Games should be installed alike |
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>> any other applications. |
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> The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.) |
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> are specified by the FHS. So they're not entirely games team policy. |
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I just checked some random packages on Debian and found that adherence |
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to this path there is mixed. I'd say the majority of packages I |
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checked installed in /usr/games, but quite a few did not. Many of the |
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ones that tended to install there were games that probably predate the |
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Linux kernel, but this was by no means exclusively the case. |
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Their official policy says that games should go in /usr/games though. |
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They also state "Each game decides on its own security policy." They |
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apparently only use a games group for things like high scores and save |
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game dirs, and use sgid on the binary to accomplish this (minimizing |
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its use in general). (Note, I don't run Debian much, so this is the |
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result of a quick scan of their policies and the real world may vary.) |
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Just another data point - we're not obligated to do things one way or |
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the other... |
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Rich |
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