From: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:17:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160608211740.5cb7979b@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160608204436.GA10155@jasmine>
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:44:36 -0400
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:05:32PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> > I'm not so sure. Is there a way that I can explicitly access the
> > home directory of the user that invokes guix? That is, something
> > clearer than "~/.nethack"?
>
> Do we have any package definitions that write to '/home/$USER'? I
> would rather we didn't do that as a side effect of installing the
> package.
>
I haven't seen any packages definitions that do that in my casual
browsing the source tree. I wouldn't want to do that either, but it is
the only way I can come up with to get NetHack working while
minimally changing how it works. Doing more than this may require
patches in NetHack's C code, but I'm not familiar with the code base.
> It's really the responsibility of the packaged software to set this up
> when the user first runs it. If it can't, the user can copy the
> "template" state files from '/gnu/store/...-nethack/whatever' into
> their home directory.
>
> Have you asked the NetHack maintainers for advice?
I haven't asked NetHack maintainers for advice yet. It seems like that
would be the next logical step, though.
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Kei (GPG Key: 4096R/E6A5EE3C19467A0D)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-09 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-31 21:56 [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack Kei Kebreau
2016-06-04 21:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-06 20:25 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-06-07 17:20 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-08 12:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-06-08 18:05 ` Kei Kebreau
2016-06-08 20:44 ` Leo Famulari
2016-06-09 1:17 ` Kei Kebreau [this message]
2016-12-30 21:30 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-30 21:47 ` Kei Kebreau
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