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On 07/01/2016 07:39 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: |
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> On 2016-07-01 01:27 -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>> 1. Do you take advantage of games.eclass features, including restricting |
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>> game access to a given group and installing games outside of /usr and/or |
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>> on different media? |
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> No, in fact I was rather surprised by this extra complexity in Gentoo |
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> when I was migrating from Debian. |
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>> 2. If yes, how do you feel about the removal of the eclass? Did you rely |
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>> on its functionality? Does your use case require it? |
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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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I haven't seen any documentation on how QA or others intend to |
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facilitate the switch, if they will add elog calls, write a news item, |
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move gamesaves, or anything like that, so for peace of mind I suggest |
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backing up your gamesaves. It's a good practice to get the hang of, |
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anyway. :) |
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In a perfect world, all you'd need to do is remerge the affected |
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packages and they'll install to the new locations. |
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