On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 08:16:44PM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Micha?? G??rny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > - changing ownership and permissions of all the files. > > As a side note: why is /usr/games owned by uid "games"? Does > games_pkg_setup() in games.eclass do that? What's the point of user > "games" (as opposed to group with same name)?
I don't know the current situation, but I recall that in the past, some games pounded away directly on the VGA hardware for speed, or called libraries that did so. This, of course might be dangerous to allow regular-user programs to do. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
