"Thompson, David" <dthomps...@worcester.edu> skribis: > 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.
Yes, I agree. Note that this problem is not limited to Nixpkgs and Guix. So perhaps there’s also inspiration to be taken from Debian et al. Ludo’.
