Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-10-11

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:40:21 +0100
James Le Cuirot <chewi@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 15:28:28 -0700
> Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should take an inventory of some common games and determine
> > where upstream wants to put them in the first place.  
> 
> These days most games don't even bother trying to respect FHS at all.
> Those that aren't only available through Steam are often designed to be
> just unpacked and run in place. Most games comprise of a binary, some
> bundled libraries, and some assets. Assuming you can unbundle all the
> libraries, it's sometimes sufficient to put the assets somewhere
> under /usr/share and then change to that directory in a wrapper before
> executing the binary. The only question is where to put that
> binary. /usr/share would be bad.

I'd say per FHS it would be /opt/foo or /usr/lib/foo (*not*
$(get_libdir)).

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>

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