>>>>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> In yesterday's meeting the QA team has unanimously accepted the
> following policies (see bug 537580 for details):

> 1. Directories /usr/games, /usr/games/bin, /usr/games/lib*,
>    /usr/share/games, /var/games, /etc/games, and /opt must be owned
>    by root:root and have permissions 755 (i.e. the default).

> This will require a small change in games.eclass, because currently
> prepgamesdirs() changes ownership of these directories to root:games
> and mode to 0750, so they are readable only by users that are members
> of the "games" group. With attached patch, games.eclass will no longer
> change permissions of the top-level directories (mostly, these are
> identical to the FHS locations).

> [...]

> 2. A new group to allow setgid binaries to access shared score/state
>    files will be created. The name of this group will be "gamestat".

The change to games.eclass has been committed now, and the policy is
documented here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Policies#Games

Ulrich

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