Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Magnus Holmgren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> Game executables should be installed in /usr/games, but what about game
>> servers that are designed to be long-running (in contrast to ones that just
>> manage a single game) and to run as a system daemon, and doesn't work if
>> executed by an ordinary user? I don't think either Policy or the FHS
>> mentions
>> this explicitly, possibly because there are very few such executables.
>
>
> #506811, right?
>
> Looking quickly at the existing ones, it seems that most of them do
> not have the server executables placed in /usr/games.....
>
> Whatever the answer is, I don't really see #506811 as an RC bug. The
> user was misusing the package as he is not launching the game server
> the way it is intended to be launched.
>
> So, whatever the answer to your question is, the bug should IMHO be
> closed.
>
> Maybe another can be opened for moving the binary to /usr/sbin,
> depending on what this discussion gives....
Why should the server be in roots path? Games should never be run as
root.
If the server is to be started by a user then /usr/games. Otherwise I
would go for /usr/lib/package/.
MfG
Goswin
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