Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.

[Kei Kebreau]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Kei,
>
> I felt the need to play a game, so I was looking into packaging Nethack.
> But I then found this email thread and saw that you already tried it!
> Inspired by the RPG theme, I decided to perform thread necromancy! :-)
>
> How did this pan out?  It looks like Nethack didn't wind up in the Guix
> git repo.  Was there a blocking issue?  The plan to create a ~/.nethack
> directory sounds like a good idea.
>

Creating the ~/.nethack directory does in fact work, but the last
NetHack patch in that thread messes with the user's home directory as
part of the installation process, which is forbidden for official Guix
packages. The correct fix for this would be to patch NetHack's source
code so that writing to files in the store (this is why I used the
~/.nethack directory workaround) would be unnecessary.

> Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I haven't asked NetHack maintainers for advice yet. It seems like that
>> would be the next logical step, though.
>
> Did you ever talk with them about the issues you found?

I emailed them but never received a response.

P.S. I've been pondering on the patch for a while now, and IIRC Chris
Webber had a WIP angband patch on the mailing list as well. Help with
either package would be well appreciated! :-)

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