[fhs-discuss] games/ as a separate directory
Richard Hartmann
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Sun May 22 16:05:35 PDT 2011
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 00:13, Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> wrote:
> Yes, they are. Only games, as a class, use setgid bits to share high score
> data between users.
See the discussion about that one the freedesktop game mailing list.
At least Debian and Fedora are actively changing this.
> They're *not* in root's path, and some of us want to keep it that way.
I meant "if they are in /usr/bin, root installed them".
> /usr/games is the symmetric complement to /usr/sbin: programs that are only
> meant to be run by non-root, vs. programs that are only meant to be run by
> root.
That would be /usr/ubin, /usr/non-root or similar. Abusing /usr/games
as "this is stuff root should not execute" seems wrong, at best.
>> _Or_ we would need to come up with a better system of classification
>> and introduce a _lot_ more options.
>
> Why? Who needs that? I sure don't.
My point exactly. Get rid of the old cruft and don't introduce new
cruft needlessly.
Richard
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