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On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Andreas K. Huettel |
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<dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> the Gentoo Council will meet again on Sunday, October 11 at 19:00 UTC in |
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> #gentoo-council on freenode. |
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> Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to discuss |
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> or vote on. |
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So, this has been going around in various circles, and I think it is |
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better to just air stuff out here. There are lots of arguments for |
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and against this. I'm interested in what the general sense is, beyond |
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just those who have been vocal in bringing this up. |
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I'd like the Council to consider: |
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1. Decide that games should not be owned by a games group, and that |
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in the default configuration users should not have to be in the games |
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group to run games. |
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2. Games should be installed in /usr and not /usr/games as with most |
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applications |
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3. Assuming 1&2 are both approved, deprecate games.eclass. Otherwise |
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modify it accordingly. |
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4. If 1&2 aren't approved, when should the games policy apply? Does |
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it include games bundled in kde/gnome/etc? Do we intend to give more |
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or less deference to maintainers when there is a dispute over whether |
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something is a "game?" I'm not going to ask the Council to define |
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"game." |
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I don't want to get too much further into detail than that (does |
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nethack bones go in /var/lib/nethack, or /var/lib/games/nethack, and |
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what gid is used?). I think that beyond a point it is best left to |
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the games team or maintainers. Honestly, I'm not even 100% convinced |
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that we shouldn't leave the whole thing to the games team, but right |
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now we don't have an active one, and it seems like a lot of people are |
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passionate about it so I'm more inclined to set a policy now than let |
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the games team set a policy and then yell at them for getting it |
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wrong. |
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I'll go ahead and say now that from a personal standpoint I think we |
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should approve 1&2, deprecate the eclass, and #4 is moot. I'm not |
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sure I'll end up voting that way because Gentoo policy is more than |
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personal preference, but I'm thinking that simpler is better here, and |
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it works for everything else that involves moving images on the |
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screen, sound, etc. |
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