John Darrington writes:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org> skribis:
>
> > Ludovic Court??s writes:
> >
> >> Georgi Kirilov <kirilov.georg...@gmail.com> skribis:
> >>
> >>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:34:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>To make things more concrete, we could discuss specific packages you
> are
> >>>>interested in and see how we could provide them in Guix{,SD}.
> >>>
> >>> The package is the old bsd-games bundle. Some of the games need to
> >>> write score files under /var/lib/bsdgames/
> >>> You can find attached my patch so far.
> >>
> >> The patch looks good to me!
> >>
> >> As for /var/lib/bsdgames, then it???s up to the admin to set the right
> >> permissions on it. We can ensure that it exists and has the right
> >> permissions on GuixSD, but on foreign distros, there???s nothing we
> can
> >> do.
> >>
> >> We could also modify bsd-games such that it falls back to
> >> ~/.local/bsdgames when /var/lib/bsdgames isn???t accessible (and it
> would
> >> be worth submitting upstream). ISTR this was discussed for one of the
> >> games present in Guix.
> >>
> >> WDYT?
> >>
> >> Ludo???.
> >
> > I'm a bit wary about GuixSD packages declaring being able to write to
> > /var/ anything by default. What would the permissions be? I guess if
> > it were world-writable to all "users" group users it would be okayish.
> >
> > Note that KoboDeluxe includes a patch snarfed from Debian that comments
> > out the ability to save score files for this same reason, and it was
> > marked in Debian as a security patch IIRC...
>
> Yeah, I think scores in /var are a remnant of the past. Unix just lacks
> a good way to address this use case.
>
> So it sounds best for games to use a score file under $HOME by default.
>
> I always thought the unix way was rather nice. The scores file was owned by
> "games" and programs which wanted to write to them were setuid games.
>
> That way everyone on the system shares the same scores file.
>
> J'
It's fun but... does anyone still play games on the same shared machine
anymore and compare score files?
Except for maybe nethack on fencepost ... ;)
