Re: SETGIDGAME in package's Makefile. Why?

"Jeremy C. Reed" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> Can anybody explain this magic?
> Why SETGIDGAME in set to yes in package's Makefile.
> Many (but not all!) games/ packages do this.
> 
> IMHO such things should be set in user's mk.conf.

This email may be better for tech-pkg (or pkgsrc-users). I cc'd tech-pkg. 
Let's continue conversation there.

SETGIDGAME, according to the documentation, should not be in any package 
Makefiles. I see they are. If no PR is filed yet, then a bug should be 
filed -- either documentation is wrong or the several packages are wrong.
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