On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 Analuin Abyssbeholder <cntq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: > > The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: > #required by nethack (argument) > # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: > # Tavis Ormandy <tav...@gentoo.org> <tav...@gentoo.org> (21 Mar 2006) > # masked pending unresolved security issues #125902 > =games-roguelike/nethack-3.4.3-r1 > > Then I googled and view > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125902#c82. > > It turned out the bug has been existed for more than six years and is > related to gentoo's group game policy. So can I just manually install > nethack as a common user ? If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the games group can edit all save files, so if you want to hack your own saves, go ahead :). Or if you trust all games users. Doesn't look like there's any newer version of NetHack out, either. Cheers, Bryan
