On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 00:13, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, they are. Only games, as a class, use setgid bits to share high score > data between users. See the discussion about that one the freedesktop game mailing list. At least Debian and Fedora are actively changing this. > They're *not* in root's path, and some of us want to keep it that way. I meant "if they are in /usr/bin, root installed them". > /usr/games is the symmetric complement to /usr/sbin: programs that are only > meant to be run by non-root, vs. programs that are only meant to be run by > root. That would be /usr/ubin, /usr/non-root or similar. Abusing /usr/games as "this is stuff root should not execute" seems wrong, at best. >> _Or_ we would need to come up with a better system of classification >> and introduce a _lot_ more options. > > Why? Who needs that? I sure don't. My point exactly. Get rid of the old cruft and don't introduce new cruft needlessly. Richard _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
