-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2014 08:32 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> 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 >
Just to clarify, the current Gentoo policy is that game executables go in /usr/games/bin and libraries go in /usr/games/$(get_libdir). Debian policy follows FHS in that games binaries go directly in /usr/games and games libraries go in the same directory as other libraries. - -- Jonathan Callen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTvKBxAAoJELHSF2kinlg4y/kP/jj6wkESt7cXnj+MdgIcdYQd 2DSz1LQID4GyS4+Zkc8oIIfQCjWVBp4ZL3biEPDi2wWoF8gmsQPcnzru0/XlLwlb +0S4NfrsA4I53DUztDV1XW4Wsi1VxYF2RzCo/W+S7ZdzNceAkRcvFt9hEUhNlFnu 6DCw/yf8dHC3IkblU3Bs4ZYltkVQbCIuc02RYyT8UYKW72h5vbW0BJg032WYJkA5 gYW0RSWplv++z1ngeI+7LJ/bAJzD9wwriSY3ilBknrBNlR1AI2/S3EdQsQUyJt8I QrlweD7KIlhjj1Rb7zet04FMyLfoVtD0h2Gbyvht2l6ZQLvV8aIuO9VwWdaST2fF 45UkGKIMYt3zU4qH1l4qo5IuYYSkPcSmzXAdCG8GlKmWShI3heQcKEafH2kR35e7 os7D5z4DofzpwRgjd4KKebG3v0q3NLUyKhrlik2dTSO+jPOYGj45Ow1o83Up5U6V 9xB6PilLx9SoiVvU1prwG3WGd1s9J3YGq4JWWzxm9mGGQThdrvQUvLFNoIO7zOWF l0Dp4IMLnfrmGa9RWyzaBbYMZMK693novbkbr7yW+PFaBUjfKEsxasp9JHTwBDcF jW2iAf/a1JraP1APbDp9gYCXHfDO9wNXwzI3wyT5QvLkyzkLBUkPg+3gcdIDFgbM ugURcg6HIZ1bd4vQED6U =RdNt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
