[fhs-discuss] games/ as a separate directory

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:16:01AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Karl Goetz 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> | If /usr/share/games and /var/games go I see no reason to keep
> | /usr/games. I think we should ditch the */games sub-directories for all
> | of them. If we keep /var/games for its job of keeping scores i'm
> | wondering if there is a better place we can put it under (I'm seeing
> | why we might want it to stay around, just seems like an odd
> | inconsistency).
> 
> I think we should deprecated */games too.  We can recommend games keep
> their high score and other data in an sgid directory /var/lib/$game
> instead?  That should also prevent any mishaps with overlapping file
> names in /var/games.

Agreed.  I see no reason why games should be treated specially over
any other program, and given that packages need to ship the files
with the correct ownership (/var/games is not 02755 root:games),
the change for existing users is only one of changing the path.


Regards,
Roger

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