[fhs-discuss] games/ as a separate directory

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 06 May 2011 07:16:01 +0200
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no> 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.

why does the directory need to be sgid if just one game will be using
it?
(perhaps i misunderstand your comment?)
thanks,
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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