Re: the setgid games mess

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 08:15:21AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>    - In order to make this work, the various platform .mk files should
>      be adjusted so that GAMES_GROUP (and GAMES_USER if it doesn't go
>      away) is always defined, rather than being randomly commented out
>      or randomly conditionalized on SETGIDGAME.

Just provide a single standard in defaults/mk.conf -- I don't see much
point in duplicating this all over the place. It's mostly c&p anyway.

>    - GAMEMODE/GAMEDIRMODE/GAMEDATAMODE should not be defined in the
>      platform .mk files but in someplace common. They should not be in
>      mk/defaults/mk.conf either. Someone please tell me where the
>      right place is!

Why not in mk/defaults/mk.conf?

>    - When UNPRIVILEGED=yes, GAMES_GROUP, GAMEMODE, GAMEDIRMODE, and
>      GAMEDATAMODE should be adjusted accordingly, to
>      UNPRIVILEGED_GROUP, 555, 755, and 644 respectively. This is at
>      least partly already in place.

I don't see the point in this.

Joerg.