Re: pkg/34149 (angband-tty doesn't work after recent update)

[dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost (David Holland)]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/34149; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost (David Holland)
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dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/34149 (angband-tty doesn't work after recent update)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 17:40:19 -0400 (EDT)

  > Patch un-applied:  SETGIDGAME is not to be set by a package.
 
 Hm... oops.
 
 I admit I didn't look at (or look for) the documentation for
 SETGIDGAME, but now that I have I don't think it would have stopped me
 from drawing the conclusion that I did.
 
 It should probably be renamed SETGIDGAMES, and the documentation
 should say that it's not supposed to be set by packages. (Otherwise
 doubtless other people will continue to make the same mistake. As of
 yesterday three games set it explicitly: tanked, xgalaga, and
 xscrabble.)
 
 Probably a better long-term approach would be to have it go by putting
 setgid in $(PKG_OPTIONS).foo, but that's also probably a lot of work.
 
 As for fixing angband... before anyone goes in and starts patching it,
 it's probably a good idea to update to the latest version. And to
 clean up the divergence between angband-tty and angband-x11, too.
 
 Sigh. And here I thought this was an easy one...
 
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    - David A. Holland / dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost