On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Jens Lody <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
I don't see that recommended against. Given the occasional quite large
size of static game data, keeping it in a separate directory enables
keeping it in a separate partition, which I think is why its a
separate directory.
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