Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.

[Leo Famulari]

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.