On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 12:51:33PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2018-06-14 11:42:22, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Debian can choose to put games in the /.../games directories, or in the > > standard directories /usr/bin, /usr/share etc., or any mixture of our > > choice, orthogonal to whether/when we move to FHS 3.0. > > It's been a while since this was discussed, but I have just learned of > this issue, so sorry for bumping an old thread but... > > I have recently learned that FreeBSD moved their games out of /usr/games > and into /usr/bin. Things like rot13(6), fortune(6), primes(6) are all > in the main PATH now, amazing no? :) > > That happened in 2015: > > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/ObsoleteFiles.inc?id=11d9aa670723f508821f2bf6980a555360783a80 > > I wonder if we should just do the same. I'm not sure I see the point of > having all that stuff in a separate directory, personnally, but at least > in this case we shouldn't needlessly diverge from upstream... although > in terms of upstream for bsd-games, things are kind of hazy, at best, > from what I understand.
I do not see any advantage over /usr/games. On the other hand, /usr/games allows: - priviledged accounts to omit /usr/games in their path (root does not have it e.g) - quickly find which games are installed on a system (ls /usr/games). - have a separate partitions for game data (which are amongst the largest Debian package) - have a specific policy for /var/games Cheers, Bill
