>>>>> On Tue, 8 Jul 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:31 AM, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> The install locations (/usr/games, /usr/share/games, /var/games, etc.) >> are specified by the FHS. So they're not entirely games team policy.
> I just checked some random packages on Debian and found that adherence > to this path there is mixed. I'd say the majority of packages I > checked installed in /usr/games, but quite a few did not. Many of the > ones that tended to install there were games that probably predate the > Linux kernel, but this was by no means exclusively the case. > Their official policy says that games should go in /usr/games though. > They also state "Each game decides on its own security policy." They > apparently only use a games group for things like high scores and save > game dirs, and use sgid on the binary to accomplish this (minimizing > its use in general). (Note, I don't run Debian much, so this is the > result of a quick scan of their policies and the real world may vary.) It certainly differs between distros. Debian generally uses /usr/games and has a games group for score files. Fedora has chosen to ignore the FHS and installs everything in /usr/bin. IIUC, they also use an own group for each game if it needs to write shared score files. [1] Ulrich [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.games/365
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