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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××.org> wrote: |
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> I would not miss it, but I now that I am at last done with the |
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> migration, and I have a bunch of games installed that are very important |
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> to me, I am afraid of the potential new burden of transitioning to a |
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> state where games are ordinary programs, even if such state would be |
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> beautiful, clean, simple, etc. |
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A fair concern, but unless you have scripts/etc that are directly |
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parsing games files I don't see much impact here. The main impact is |
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that the file locations in /usr would change, and you'd no longer need |
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to be in the games group to run them. If you do have scripts/etc that |
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touch games files then you'd need to edit some paths inside. Being in |
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the games group wouldn't hurt anything. |
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If there are games where you had to install some file off of an |
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original install CD (like map data/etc where Gentoo is only providing |
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the engine) then you might need to re-install things to the proper |
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place. I'm not sure if we still have anything like that in the tree, |
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or where we typically direct users to install such things. I think |
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that in those situations it probably wouldn't hurt to have NEWS or |
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ELOG/etc as appropriate. If save states are getting moved ideally |
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ebuilds should be tweaked to take care of that. |
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Rich |
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