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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Cc: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:21:46
Message-Id: 20140731112119.a35c07742b83aadcc1835aff@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12 by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:23:45 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > Am Mittwoch 30 Juli 2014, 15:44:28 schrieb Andrew Savchenko:
3 > > Hello,
4 > >
5 > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:28:32 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote:
6 > > > On 30/07/14 09:26, Michał Górny wrote:
7 > > > > 3. the use of group 'games' to control access to games can be
8 > > > > deprecated and needs not to be enforced,
9 > > >
10 > > > I would like the council to consider removing this group altogether,
11 > > > and fixing all ebuilds to not use it.
12 > >
13 > > Please carefully consider this matter. Having a dedicated group is
14 > > quite convenient to limit users from using games on workstations
15 > > and is also handy as a parental control feature. Of course,
16 > > a dedicated group is not an ultimate solution and can be evaded by
17 > > technically skilled users, but it nevertheless helps.
18 > >
19 >
20 > https://www.google.com/search?q=browser+games
21 > nuff said
22
23 This may be filtered by a proxy.
24
25 Best regards,
26 Andrew Savchenko

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