Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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.

Yeah, I would also prefer something along these lines.

What do you think, Kei?  Does that sound doable?

Thanks,
Ludo’.