Standardizing various games packaging things across distros

[Jon Dowland]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:13:28AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 1) /usr/bin versus /usr/games

(I think) we've taken the opposite route and put them all in /usr/games.
/usr/games is in the default $PATH on Debian.

> 2) /usr/share/<gamename> versus /usr/share/games/<gamename>
>
> FHS: /usr/share/games	Static data files for /usr/games (optional)

Again we seem to have gone the opposite route and followed the FHS.

> 3) /var/games versus /var/lib/games
>
> FHS: /var/games		Variable game data (optional)

Debian uses /var/games.

So it looks like we're quite different to Fedora on the above ☹