Re: [gentoo-project] Call for Agenda Items -- Council Meeting 2015-12-13

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2015, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:

> the Gentoo Council will meet again on Sunday, December 13 at 19:00 UTC
> in #gentoo-council on FreeNode.

> Please reply to this message with any items you would like us to discuss
> or vote on.

I'd like us to revisit the games policies already discussed in the
20151011 meeting [1].

The Council accepted the following motion:
   "1.  Decide that games should not be owned by a games group, and
   that in the default configuration users should not have to be in
   the games group to run games."

However, the following was a tie vote (and therefore did not pass):
   "2.  Games should be installed in /usr and not /usr/games as with
   most applications"

I propose to vote on the following motion (which is basically 2 with
minor refinements):

   The /usr/games directory is deprecated. Games packages should _not_
   install any files there, but follow the normal guidelines for
   install locations instead. Two exceptions are made:
   a) Games packages can install files in /usr/share/games (instead
   of /usr/share) if that is the location used by upstream.
   b) Shared high-score or game state files can be placed in
   /var/games or a subdirectory of it.

Possibly we could then reconsider item 3. of rich0's proposal [2].

Ulrich


[1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt
[2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/16fc54d2bced9ff51b71d387eb0fb36b

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