On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:00:52AM +0530, Vinay Shastry wrote: > On 7/6/05, cactus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yikes. I say no. > > No needless file/directory structures. > > I dont see a reason not to, well, why do we have qt in /opt, why do we > have openoffice in /opt ? even they can be blended all into main > /usr, they are separate just cos they can exist separate. > Having a separate games dir (with permission: root:games) provides a > nice place to put even commertial games like quake, doom, ut* > everthing in one recognisable and familiar area.
Well, for one, games isn't one of the default groups. Two, usually things are put into /opt because they're one unit, not because they *can* be put in there. Commercial games would probably fit in that category (assuming we could package them...). Three, just because it's listed as optional in the FHS doesn't mean it has to be there. That's why it's optional. Four, why do we need a games directory? Just because things would be nicer? Personally, I think things are nicer without a games directory. In fact, I made a push to get rid of the games directories in packages specifically because it's not in our package guidelines and they're just like any other program. Just about all of them fit/install very nicely into the /usr/bin layout, because that's what they were designed, by the developers, to be installed in. More often than not you'd be changing things more to fit the /usr/games layout than vice versa. [snip arguing with hugo] Jason -- If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.
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