%datadir or %datadir/games for games?

Toshio Kuratomi toshio at tiki-lounge.com
Sat Mar 4 18:17:43 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 11:13 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > However, as far as I know, /usr/games has never been in the default
> > $PATH of any Red Hat originated distribution, so /usr/bin/foo
> > -> /usr/games/foo symlinks  should be provided by the packager (or
> > binaries installed to /usr/games by upstream moved to /usr/bin).
> > 
> 
> I say move the binaries to /usr/bin
> 
One reason that was voiced for /usr/games in the distant past was
that /usr/games can be network mountable among a group of machines.
Then a system admin can decide whether a specific machine can run games
by mounting or unmounting it.

-Toshio
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