Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> FHS chapter 4, at the end of the paragraph on "Specific options" in
> /usr/share, says:
>
>       Similarly, a /usr/lib/games hierarchy may be used in addition to
>       the /usr/share/games hierarchy if the distributor wishes to
>       place some game data there.
>
> Neither policy nor developers' reference say anything about this, but I
> think most games choose to use both /usr/share/games and /usr/lib/games
> for game data.  The good thing about this is that it makes it very easy
> to do things to all games at once (exclude them from backups, for
> example).

Hm.  Okay.  I think it's kind of silly, but I hadn't thought to check the
FHS for it, only Debian policy.

It's not too hard to add an exception for games.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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