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>>>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2015, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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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, |
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> beyond 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 |
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> games group to run games. |
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Definitely +1 from me. We should get rid of the games group |
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altogether. |
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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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I have no strong opinion on this one. There are arguments for both |
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alternatives. |
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> 3. Assuming 1&2 are both approved, deprecate games.eclass. |
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> Otherwise modify it accordingly. |
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> 4. If 1&2 aren't approved, when should the games policy apply? |
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> Does it include games bundled in kde/gnome/etc? Do we intend to |
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> give more or less deference to maintainers when there is a dispute |
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> over whether something is a "game?" I'm not going to ask the |
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> Council to define "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 |
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> are passionate about it so I'm more inclined to set a policy now |
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> than let the games team set a policy and then yell at them for |
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> getting it wrong. |
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I want to point out that we have a QA policy on shared high-score or |
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game state files: |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#Games |
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It's short enough to quote it here: |
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"Games that need privileged access to shared high-score or game state |
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files can be installed setgid (mode g+s or 2755). Group "gamestat" |
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with gid 36 (but not the "games" group) should be used for them. |
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The files for state/scores should then be created in /var/games or |
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a subdirectory of it and have appropriate owner and permissions |
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(root:gamestat, mode g+w)." |
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Ulrich |
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