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

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Rich Freeman wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>> The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.)
>> are specified by the FHS. So they're not entirely games team policy.

> I just checked some random packages on Debian and found that adherence
> to this path there is mixed.  I'd say the majority of packages I
> checked installed in /usr/games, but quite a few did not.  Many of the
> ones that tended to install there were games that probably predate the
> Linux kernel, but this was by no means exclusively the case.

> Their official policy says that games should go in /usr/games though.
> They also state "Each game decides on its own security policy."  They
> apparently only use a games group for things like high scores and save
> game dirs, and use sgid on the binary to accomplish this (minimizing
> its use in general).  (Note, I don't run Debian much, so this is the
> result of a quick scan of their policies and the real world may vary.)

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]

Ulrich

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.games/365