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

[Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>]

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

From: Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>
To: David Holland <dholland%eecs.harvard.edu@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/34149 (angband-tty doesn't work after recent update)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 23:54:26 +0200

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 On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 05:40:19PM -0400, David Holland wrote:
 >  > Patch un-applied:  SETGIDGAME is not to be set by a package.
 >=20
 > Hm... oops.
 >=20
 > 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.
 
 Well, I did that mistake too, so can't blame ya.
 
 > 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.)
 >=20
 > 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.
 
 I don't think it makes much sense to not have it on by default when
 installing with privileges.  I'll start a discussion on tech-pkg.
 
 > 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.
 
 Yeah.  I'll ping the maintainer.
 
 > Sigh. And here I thought this was an easy one...
 
 Famous last words.
 
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