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saik0

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Registered: 2012-08-14

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Packaging a game that saves user data to installation directory

Kerbal Space Program looks for savegames (amongst other things) in the installation folder. My thoughts on packaging it are either

1. Package to /opt as world writable

2. Package to /opt. Depend on unionfs-fuse, use a wrapper script to create union in /var/run/user/$gid/ksp joining /opt/ksp and $HOME/.ksp before running the game

WorMzy

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Re: Packaging a game that saves user data to installation directory

1. Package to /opt as world writable

Dwarf Fortress (in community/) does something along these lines (it makes use of the games group though, which is better than making it world-writable imo. (source files: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … rffortress)

Keep it simple. People that want to do something fancy with bind mounts and filesystems can still do so if they want to.

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HalosGhost

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Re: Packaging a game that saves user data to installation directory

Package to /opt with the necessary directories made world-writable. Best option, imho, and I've seen it done on several occasions.

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stqn

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Registered: 2010-03-19

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Re: Packaging a game that saves user data to installation directory

Beat the developer with a stick until he respects the XDG specification?