On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:15:20PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 01:00:38PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > /usr/games is a swamp for another time I think. I guess it contains > > an awful lot of things with clashing names.
> Last I checked the latest FHS drafts removed /usr/games entirely, so the > morass might end up being dumped into /usr/bin at some point in the near > future, where they are promoted from $PATH conflicts to actual binary > conflicts. Removal of /usr/games has been proposed on the FHS mailing list. There have also been objections to this change. It is not in the current FHS draft. Merging /usr/games into /usr/bin is *wrong* because you want the superuser to *not* have sgid games in their path. /usr/games is the reciprocal of /usr/sbin. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120815165842.gf2...@virgil.dodds.net
