%datadir or %datadir/games for games?

[Wart]

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Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>See:
>>>>http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SPECIFICOPTIONS15
>>>
>>>Note:
>>>/usr/share/games .. Static data files for /usr/games (optional)
>>>
>>>=> I read this as /usr/share/games corresponds to packages having been
>>>installed to /usr/games
>>>
>>
>>Ern, /usr/games isn't mentioned elsewhere in the doc and is very 
>>deprecated. I believe they forgot to update this part of the doc when 
>>/usr/games got removed.
> 
> Well, I think /usr/games and /usr/share/games essentially are historic
> artifacts, and an LSB typical compromise to cater those systems who have
> a tradition in using them.

That's the impression that I also got from reading the FHS.

> IIRC, there had been 2 motivations for /usr/games and /usr/share/games:
> 1. Keeping games out of /usr/bin to keep $PATH clean and lean.

Which seems rather silly to me since the amount of pollution from games
binaries is miniscule compared to everything else already in there.

> 2. Cater games which want to play uid/gid tricks on data files.
> IMO, this argument is void on shared/static data and if at all, only is
> applicable to score-files and the like (which nowadays are supposed to
> live somewhere below /var).

Anything in /usr must be usable as read-only, so I would consider any
attempts to write to /usr as a bug and filed as such.

>>I vote for /use/share/games/xxx because /usr/share is already rather 
>>crowded.
>>
>>What do you / others vote?
> 
> I vote for "treat games as ordinary applications"
> i.e. /usr/bin, /usr/share/<package>, /usr/lib/<package>, /var/lib, etc.

+1

- --Mike
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