On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:25:41PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > > > + (add-after 'move-state-files 'wrap-program > > > > Do we really need this wrapper? Can’t we instead take it as a patch > > from Debian or something? I’m not a fan of inline Bash code, and not > > very confident of scripts that do ‘rm -rf’. :-) > > > Unfortunately, Debian doesn't have any related patches because it's > state files are writable in the equivalent of our store directories. It > seems like the bash script will have to stay for the sake of > functionality unless someone comes up with something cleaner, though I > prefer to avoid them. Long ago, I lost a GNU/Linux installation to > "rm -rf"...
If Nethack lacks the ability to configure the location of the state files, there is still a string (or several) in the source code that looks like '/usr/share/nethack'. I think we should change this string to something more appropriate instead of wrapping Nethack.
