Bug 417101

Summary:	games.eclass: please remove /usr/games & games user and simply the code
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	kensington, mk, pacho, rdalek1967, xmw
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michał Górny archtester

2012-05-22 14:38:49 UTC

As discussed on gentoo-dev[1], please drop the use of custom game prefixes and games group limitations and install games alike regular packages.

[1]:http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_92d3fb1a5b02be363fa4142bfd15c251.xml

Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-22 14:47:02 UTC

No thanks.  We're happy with the way it is right now.  Pointless churn is pointless.

Comment 2 Tristan Heaven (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-22 14:57:39 UTC

The /usr/games prefix is a non-issue as all of the $GAMES_ paths have always been user-configurable.

Comment 3 Maxim Kammerer 2012-05-22 14:59:21 UTC

Just a note: user "games" is independent of group "games" as-is, and the only use of user "games" I can see is /usr/games being owned by games:root (whereas on older Gentoo installs /usr/games is owned by root:games similarly to all other related directories).

Another note: /usr/games is FHS-compliant, see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html.

Of possible interest: bug #345209.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Pointless churn is pointless.

It's not pointless once you don't have to deal with user/group games-related bugs anymore.