On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > 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.
I think that the main sentiment in this thread is that, while /usr/games have found some uses in Gentoo “because it's there”, it is pure legacy. However, /usr/games and associated directories *are* part of the FHS [1], and are older than X [2]. [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html [2] http://unix-tree.huihoo.org/V7/ -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute)
