On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Kei Kebreau <k...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2016 00:13:00 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Kei Kebreau <k...@openmailbox.org> skribis: >> >> > NetHack tries to modify its state files in the store and none of its >> > easily patchable directory variables allow anything different. >> > NetHack also doesn't allow a ~/.nethack directory to be created in >> > the user's directory upon running. Does anyone have any ideas or >> > other packages that do this sort of thing? >> >> I suppose the state files are essentially score files? Don’t other >> games store things in /var/lib/something? What do other distros do? >> :-) >> >> Ludo’. > > Yes, the state files are high score lists, locks for the world files > and such. The problem is that other distros give NetHack a directory to > write those files to that would be equivalent to writing to our store. > The only one I have seen that avoids this is NixOS. However, NixOS > creates a ".nethack" directory within the user's folder (among other > things) to work around this. > > I thought that this would be a problem for Guix, because installing and > removing NetHack cleanly would necessitate directly writing to and > erasing files within the user's directory. So I decided to mail the > list to see if anyone could find a solution. :-)
This isn't a problem. Stateful files in home directories or elsewhere are not managed by Guix. A .nethack directory sounds like a fine solution to me. - Dave
