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bless /var/games



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On Donnerstag, 9. April 2009, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Montag, 6. April 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I don't see much real benefit in going out of our way to remove
> > /var/games and it looks like it would be a bit annoying (at the least,
> > require adding purge code to all games that put files in /var/games that
> > would usually never be triggered).  My inclination would be to say that
> > this behavior is fine and perhaps we should officially bless it
> > somewhere.
>
> I've come to agree with this. :-) Now, where to bless it?

"9.1.1 File system Structure" has a list of exceptions from the FHS, so it 
seems it should go there.


regards,
	Holger, who will now make piuparts not complain about /var/games existing 
after package removal..

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