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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack. |
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Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:59:35 +0200 |
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Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:25:41PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
>> address@hidden (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.
Yeah, I would also prefer something along these lines.
What do you think, Kei? Does that sound doable?
Thanks,
Ludo’.