Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 16:48, Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org wrote: I know of people who have an account set up like that exactly because they don't want to play games while studying. (So for study, they log in as the non-game account, but for leisure, they log in as their normal account.

Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2011/5/4 Jon Dowland j...@debian.org: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Overall, I prefer Fedora's approach. Maybe it's worth bouncing this off of debian-devel to get more input? _If_ this is changed, it should be changed globally, preferably at the same time for

Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 23:43, Miriam Ruiz mir...@debian.org wrote: That might make sense if the distinction was between big data and small data. Good point. I seem to remember Ganneff talking about creating special repositories for large data sets (mainly games and scientific data) a few years

Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:13:28AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: 1) /usr/bin versus /usr/games (I think) we've taken the opposite route and put them all in /usr/games. /usr/games is in the default $PATH on Debian. 2) /usr/share/gamename versus /usr/share/games/gamename FHS: /usr/share/games

Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Bas Wijnen
Op 04-05-11 14:53, Jon Dowland schreef: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:13:28AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: 1) /usr/bin versus /usr/games (I think) we've taken the opposite route and put them all in /usr/games. /usr/games is in the default $PATH on Debian. Yes, but not for root. I think the main

Re: Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:43:26PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Overall, I prefer Fedora's approach. Maybe it's worth bouncing this off of debian-devel to get more input? _If_ this is changed, it should be changed globally, preferably at the same time for a lot of packages at once and become