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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] games.eclass: Allow to disable games permissions wrt #467386
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:17:30
Message-Id: 1416583038.1855.34.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] games.eclass: Allow to disable games permissions wrt #467386 by Tim Harder
1 El vie, 21-11-2014 a las 10:10 -0500, Tim Harder escribió:
2 > On 2014-11-21 09:54, hasufell wrote:
3 > > There are users who seem to like it and the games team wants to keep it
4 > > as well, so I don't see a reason to push into that direction.
5 >
6 > > The main thing is that you cannot turn off all the permission stuff in
7 > > the eclass whether you like it or not. Changing the install variables
8 > > thing is just for convenience and already possible.
9 >
10 > If people don't want to use the games eclass, then don't use it. I
11 > thought this had already been discussed and mostly ok-ed.
12 >
13 > I don't see the point of adding circumvention methods if you can just
14 > avoid it altogether.
15 >
16 > Tim
17
18 Personally I lost the track in all the games.eclass issue... I thought
19 it was going to be dropped finally :/
20
21 The problem I see in keeping it and also allow people to not use that
22 one is that we will have some games installed in different places and
23 permissions than others... and that looks really inconsistent to me (I
24 guess people will simply keep adding themselves to games group... but,
25 in that case, what is the purpose of keeping that group and special
26 paths?)