Hi, On 05/06/2011 01:47 AM, Karl Goetz wrote: > On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:07:04 -0500 > Bruno Wolff III<bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:50:20 +0200, >> Hans de Goede<hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> My main reason for starting this discussion is to come to some sort >>> of agreement which form is the preferred form, so that we can have >>> some "how to be a good games upstream" webpage which addresses some >>> game specific things. I would like such a webpage to contain advice >>> for upstream what to use for the various ambiguities I've pointed >>> out in my first mail. >> >> If you do include one of these, please include something about how to >> design games to be installed system wide. Some games seem to be setup >> to run out of people's home directory and mix per user data (needing >> write access) with static data. I also ran across a minor secuirty >> issue with a start up script that adds stuff to LDCONFIG (which >> shouldn't even be needed for system installs) incorrectly. > > Debian doesn't have one specifically for games, but does have a page for > upstreams [1]. Is this the sort of thing you're thinking about? If so > it may contain some helpful starting points (or, for that matter, need > expanding with your suggestions). > > [1] http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Yes that is more or less what I have in mind. In general I think it would be good to try to get a distro neutral version of this page online at freedesktop.org, which the various distro specific wiki's can then link too, but lets start with just a page with additional advice for games. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ games mailing list games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/games
