Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add nethack.

[Kei Kebreau]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 16:44:36 -0400
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 02:05:32PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote:
> > I'm not so sure. Is there a way that I can explicitly access the
> > home directory of the user that invokes guix? That is, something
> > clearer than "~/.nethack"?  
> 
> Do we have any package definitions that write to '/home/$USER'? I
> would rather we didn't do that as a side effect of installing the
> package.
>

I haven't seen any packages definitions that do that in my casual
browsing the source tree. I wouldn't want to do that either, but it is
the only way I can come up with to get NetHack working while
minimally changing how it works. Doing more than this may require
patches in NetHack's C code, but I'm not familiar with the code base.

> It's really the responsibility of the packaged software to set this up
> when the user first runs it. If it can't, the user can copy the
> "template" state files from '/gnu/store/...-nethack/whatever' into
> their home directory.
>
> Have you asked the NetHack maintainers for advice?

I haven't asked NetHack maintainers for advice yet. It seems like that
would be the next logical step, though.

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Kei (GPG Key: 4096R/E6A5EE3C19467A0D)

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