>>>>> On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Rich Freeman wrote:

> The value of keeping the status quo is that it is the status quo,
> IMO. Tweaking it makes it no longer the status quo and it just means
> lot of change for questionable value (again, IMO).

> I'd just as soon do away with the games eclass altogether if we're
> going to make a change.  Then games become like any other package.
> That is a state I think is worth changing for.  If we're just going
> to move one or two directories around, I don't really see why we
> need to make everybody jump through hoops, unless those few
> directories are causing major problems today.

In fact, under the second option almost all locations would be the
standard locations. The single exception would be /var/games which is
used for shared highscore/bones files. These require special treatment
(permissions etc.) in any case.

Ulrich