Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

Michał Górny:
> 
> That said, cross-distribution compatibility is important.

To be honest, this is a minor case and you shouldn't expect the council
to do anything about it.

Last time it really made a difference was about the pkgconfig discussion
and neither QA nor the council cared enough to enforce consistent rules
about it.

No one cares about cross-distro compatibility.

The more important argument is simplicity imo and maintenance burden. We
are not just talking about games supposed to install into
/usr/games/bin, but literally in any location, since those games
variables are modifiable and advertised as such (so this wasn't really
about FHS compliance in the first place). Please look at the downstream
patches, sed hacks, symlink workarounds, wrapper scripts and eclasses
(even gnome-games.eclass) that were introduced because of this.

Sure, it's doable, but still a lot of work to support a corner case.

In paludis, if you want to modify permissions for all games globally,
you could easily do so via an ebuild phase hook, e.g.

# cat /etc/paludis/hooks/ebuild_install_post/games_perms.bash
if [[ ${CATEGORY} =~ "games" ]] ; then
  find /var/tmp/paludis/${CATEGORY}-${PF}/image/usr/bin -type f ...
fi

I'm not sure why this case has to be supported via an eclass.