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diff --git a/filesystem.rst b/filesystem.rst index 4197415..4c98ba8 100644 --- a/filesystem.rst +++ b/filesystem.rst @@ -97,3 +97,40 @@ files strictly needed at boot. For this reason, many old Gentoo installations may still use small / partition. Static libraries are used only during package builds, and installing them to rootfs would be a waste of space. + + +.. index:: + pair: file system; games + +Game install locations and ownership +------------------------------------ +:Source: Council, clarified by QA +:Reference: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151213-summary.txt + https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20151011-summary.txt +:Reported: via install-qa-check.d + +The historical game install locations (/usr/games and /etc/games) must +not be used anymore. Instead, games should follow normal guidelines +for install locations. As an exception, /usr/share/games can be used +if this location is used upstream, and /var/games can be used for shared +game files (e.g. high scores, game state files). + +The historical games group must no longer be used. Games must work +for users that are not in this group. The aforementioned install +locations must therefore be owned by root and be world-readable. + +If games need privileged access to shared files, the group gamestat +can be used for this purpose. The game executables should be owned +by that group and made setgid. The shared files must be installed +into /var/games hierarchy, and writable to gamestat group. + +*Rationale*: there is no technical reason to isolate games from other +applications on the system, or to restrict access to them. The boundary +between game and non-game packages is very blurry on modern systems, +especially due to web browsers. + +The historical use of games group on Gentoo to control access is +inconsistent with the use in other distributions where it was used to +share data files. Since the latter implied users must not be added +to the games group, a new group (gamestat) needed to be created to +fulfill that purpose. |