Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

[Joseph Kowalski]

Getting back to the basics...

Danek Duvall wrote:
> 3.  Interfaces
>
>     /usr/bin/nethack      Uncommitted        Executable location, CLI
>     /usr/lib/nethack      Project Private    Game data directory
>     /var/games            Committed          Writeable area for games
>     /var/games/nethack    Uncommitted        Writeable area for nethack
>     games                 Committed          group name
>   
Did you really say that /usr/games was the *writable* area for games?  
It seems that
/usr is non-writable in most configurations (if not all).  In some 
cases, not even local-root
can write it.

Perhaps you would want to reopen the case to correct this?

Its pretty clear that the project team applies little value to what the 
LSB/FSH
says (and they wouldn't be alone in that), but it suggests /var/games.

(Far less interesting, but the LSB also suggest /usr/share/games for 
architecturally
neutral data files. In most cases I think the LSB fascination with 
/usr/share (which
is just a Solaris invention rather irrelevant to Linux) is overdone, but 
perhaps
game data files could be big enough to actually matter.)

- jek3

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