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Bug 280895

Summary: games-board/eboard should install timeseal by default
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Mart Raudsepp <leio>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Games <games>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 394295    
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Description Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2009-08-09 16:37:41 UTC
eboard is quite primarily used as a gateway to Internet Chess; FICS, etc.
It is quite important to have timeseal installed for playing any blitz or lightning there, or one is at a great disadvantage. Please consider installing the timeseal functionality by default, to not have users have to do it, and those Gentoo users that don't know about it to not be at a great playing disadvantage over Windows clients and perhaps other distribution users.

Timeseal installation is described at http://www.bergo.eng.br/eboard/doc.php?d=3
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-08-10 18:57:39 UTC
Got a patch?
Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2009-08-17 03:52:24 UTC
No.
Comment 3 Faustus 2010-11-07 15:17:49 UTC
A patch would be extremely simple -- just a flag (hmm... "timeseal"?) to copy http://www.freechess.org/Download/timeseal (a binary) to /usr/share/games/eboard/timeseal.Linux on x86 and amd64.