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Re: non-DESTDIR status: 87 to go



On Wed 25 May 2011 at 23:33:21 -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
>      Start by examining why those files are getting special perms.  I
> can't think of any reason why the game would need to be able to write
> to the level files.

Indeed, it seems like most of the permissions are an invention of
pkgsrc. The original Makefiles inside the NetHack distribution do things
quite differently (setuid instead of setgid, and more). I think I'd also
better separate $VARDIR and $GAMEDIR if possible.

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert  -- There's no point being grown-up if you 
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl    -- can't be childish sometimes. -The 4th Doctor


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