From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B28E13877A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:41:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 539EFE07EE; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:41:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BBA13E07ED for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localnet (packages.gentooexperimental.org [176.9.110.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05A7533FF36 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:41:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Patrick Lauer To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:41:08 +0800 Message-ID: <2012230.fpAFfp6cdW@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.13 (Linux/3.15.6-gentoo; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140731112119.a35c07742b83aadcc1835aff@gmail.com> References: <21463.26330.847055.224071@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <2150033.quEYWvVIYA@kailua> <20140731112119.a35c07742b83aadcc1835aff@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: 47a4bedd-2c28-4bc6-8fb3-976824720288 X-Archives-Hash: 3f051f5df0e8d5e2b0b628421877a667 On Thursday 31 July 2014 11:21:19 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:23:45 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 30 Juli 2014, 15:44:28 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: > > > Hello, > > >=20 > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:28:32 +0200 Alexander Berntsen wrote: > > > > On 30/07/14 09:26, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > > > > > 3. the use of group 'games' to control access to games can be= > > > > > deprecated and needs not to be enforced, > > > >=20 > > > > I would like the council to consider removing this group altog= ether, > > > > and fixing all ebuilds to not use it. > > >=20 > > > Please carefully consider this matter. Having a dedicated group i= s > > > quite convenient to limit users from using games on workstations > > > and is also handy as a parental control feature. Of course, > > > a dedicated group is not an ultimate solution and can be evaded b= y > > > technically skilled users, but it nevertheless helps. > >=20 > > https://www.google.com/search?q=3Dbrowser+games > > nuff said >=20 > This may be filtered by a proxy. >=20 If you're playing those thought games - users could even run qemu to bo= ot a=20 whole OS! Or write a Tetris clone in Python!11 There's no way to fix a social issue like this with technical means pro= perly,=20 so I'd suggest not spending so much time on trying to figure out a corn= er case=20 that is relatively irrelevant.