[Fedora-packaging] Re: Packing guidelines around /usr/games

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Am Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:10:05 -0500
schrieb Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia
> <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Link Dupont <link@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:  
> >> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 19:42 +0100, Antonio Trande wrote:  
> >>> On 01/10/2016 07:37 PM, Link Dupont wrote:  
> >>> > I'm packaging a game that uses scons as its build system. The
> >>> > default SConstruct file puts the game binary
> >>> > in /usr/games/%{name}, and the data files
> >>> > under /usr/share/games/%{name}. I searched the wiki for usage
> >>> > guidelines around /usr/games, but couldn't find any results
> >>> > that tell me whether /usr/games and /usr/share/games are
> >>> > recommended paths for Fedora.
> >>> >
> >>> > Are /usr/games and /usr/share/games the correct place for games
> >>> > to install their binary and data, or should I patch the
> >>> > SConstruct file to install into /usr/bin and /usr/share/%{name}?
> >>> >  
> >>>
> >>> These guidelines are dated but still valid I think:
> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Games/Packaging  
> >
> > It also matches the File Hierarchy System at
> > http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs-3.0.pdf .  
> 
> /usr/games is still in the spec. Look at page 25 of that PDF.
> 

It's only for static data files and it's optional.
That's exactly what the guidelines say, but they also say it's
recommended not to use it for consistency with other packages.

Jens

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