Hi,
On 05/06/2011 01:47 AM, Karl Goetz wrote:
On Thu, 5 May 2011 11:07:04 -0500 Bruno Wolff IIIbruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:50:20 +0200, Hans de Goedehdegoede@redhat.com 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).
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