From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Kei Kebreau <kei@openmailbox.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 13:20:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160607172028.GA19231@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160606162541.5254ed6c@openmailbox.org>
On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:25:41PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> > > + (add-after 'move-state-files 'wrap-program
> >
> > Do we really need this wrapper? Can’t we instead take it as a patch
> > from Debian or something? I’m not a fan of inline Bash code, and not
> > very confident of scripts that do ‘rm -rf’. :-)
> >
> Unfortunately, Debian doesn't have any related patches because it's
> state files are writable in the equivalent of our store directories. It
> seems like the bash script will have to stay for the sake of
> functionality unless someone comes up with something cleaner, though I
> prefer to avoid them. Long ago, I lost a GNU/Linux installation to
> "rm -rf"...
If Nethack lacks the ability to configure the location of the state
files, there is still a string (or several) in the source code that
looks like '/usr/share/nethack'. I think we should change this string to
something more appropriate instead of wrapping Nethack.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 17:20 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 [this message]
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
2016-12-30 21:30 ` Chris Marusich
2016-12-30 21:47 ` Kei Kebreau
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