On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 08/07/14 19:17, Michael Palimaka wrote: >> On 07/09/2014 01:22 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> And some personal thoughts about the initial proposal... >>> I don't care about the suggestion 3. in mgorny's proposal at all, but 1. >>> and 2. should definately >>> stay as is. >> What authority does the game team have over anything? Did it get special >> blessing from the Council? Isn't it just another regular project as per >> GLEP 39? > > Not everything we have had since-always-standing is documented, > unfortunately -- games has always been special from others > Still, even if it's undocumented, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist
Figuring out whether it was ever supposed to have that kind of authority isn't quite as important as figuring out whether we still want it to. Other types of packages seem to get by just fine without them (even system packages). Why treat games differently than other types of packages? We don't use /usr/X11R6 despite that being in FHS right alongside /usr/games. If we do want it to have special authority then governance matters more. However, it would be far simpler to just treat games the way we treat everything else. Is there a reason not to? Rich
