Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game
On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:17, Brian Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:59:03AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 22:09, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 11:59:29AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Okay, I've renamed this to "orbitalsniper" and adjusted the sources to
> > > > > match.
> > > >
> > > > One thing that stood out was that the binary isn't installed
> > > > into /usr/games/, instead you chose /usr/bin.
> > > >
> > > > For a game that is suprising, so I'd suggest moving it.
> > >
> > > /usr/games doesn't appear in the FHS (anymore?). I think /usr/bin is
> > > the right place for it.
> >
> > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#REQUIREMENTS9
>
> It's listed as optional though. Does that mean it's deprecated or
> anything?
I think it just means you don't need it to be an FHS-compliant system,
like, say, /usr/bin. Other such cases are /home, /root, and /bin/gzip
(none of which, I hope, are deprecated).
> I'm surprised putting games in /usr/games would still be considered
> a good idea.
While I don't have any use for separating games from other executables,
I can imagine situations where it might be desirable (e.g. school
computer labs where /usr is mounted from a central server, but only
certain people or certain systems are "gaming-allowed").
--
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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