From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kei Kebreau Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack. Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 21:17:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20160608211740.5cb7979b@openmailbox.org> References: <20160531175630.0bfd76ff@openmailbox.org> <87y46kwt82.fsf@gnu.org> <20160606162541.5254ed6c@openmailbox.org> <20160607172028.GA19231@jasmine> <87fusnj0p4.fsf@gnu.org> <20160608140532.5500b9bc@openmailbox.org> <20160608204436.GA10155@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="Sig_/StYzkr1GRgAdPmD9IcO91_T"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43068) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAoba-0001RJ-Iq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:17:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAobX-0004QG-Ad for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:17:54 -0400 Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.33]:42406) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAobX-0004Nc-10 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:17:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160608204436.GA10155@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --Sig_/StYzkr1GRgAdPmD9IcO91_T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:44:36 -0400 Leo Famulari 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"? =20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Kei (GPG Key: 4096R/E6A5EE3C19467A0D) --Sig_/StYzkr1GRgAdPmD9IcO91_T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXWMO0AAoJEOal7jwZRnoNvgAQAJsFQ88TqPWBaiteuGYid4+1 J0LIevSP1lIK9W8P9Jr3IFn8xyxXCx/+s0FA4tMUikHEBy9zr6evJ4Rirbu0tNgO 4LT3ELFKClkZKM/BWbLlxIa2Vw8NsKNzfytSD2/cfD66OUmCGUEIXYUFsQs0dqD4 HdL6USW6zVgWiwuL3+asqTE2zRBhoBI/wtdiHsQqm4aIY76d8wYAK73tG44r/NW8 d1W8Qn9cYaCuDGj5/lPATfyP0oTD8ZNqeHYDvKZE80Gj7BZCh1z+h6w2ICe/0XAb Ajgif14SiVN7fPrIlG2yYETgzg9ea8XvLM5iNgabNlzfDDQ64XusgfRYwYZ9iZTL P/bW97facdlHf/TZvXJ3FwWS4Hx7Fzp9zekYkFgy/ybdEVNoKe9RBdq4QzyGiaje h5mpw+b0JQS8NERkxG82HT7YkKpvlQ4MXMqJA4xZW0oR9r6arzyk7j35Mfw+sVw8 /nXxlQES/51WBY/mHzjeCvy4/5dfmMsNbmJwb2tfA9KVXFS1ZaH+chUACbH2EoFt jWvibPRGXWQIT/C/u2c9WOdRGZ0d+Cbzf1of4skf/f0IJ1uCOiZbUfqqpa1VKMXt 4PL15YtJrbjRd3Vma8SmizQ69T1lfkLJ/vsQa4SMtZg4x+0TnNxUBlSzBk82lHTp Kqbmy0HNwzFPILc0oSGd =Mcup -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/StYzkr1GRgAdPmD9IcO91_T--