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Steam for Windows soaked in WINE and Snapped
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Add existing SteamLibrary (or create one) outside of /home/$USER #1

Closed mainmachine closed 6 years ago

mainmachine commented 6 years ago

Great SNAP you've got here! :)

I had an existing steam library folder so I could experiment with different wineprefixes without having to duplicate the game data, but it lives on a secondary drive I've got mounted outside of /home/$USER so this snap can't access it.

Would I just need to install this with --classic to allow this to work, or is there a really good reason I shouldn't do that?

popey commented 6 years ago

Yeah, don't install non-classic snaps with --classic. That won't work out well. Where is the folder located? We could the removable-media plug, which would enable access to directories under /media and /run/media.

mainmachine commented 6 years ago

I'll admit it's probably a bad habit, but for secondary drives I'd make a mountpoint off of root and then manage permissions of subfolders separately.

If the folder was in ~/ then it should be accessible to the snap, avoiding this problem, correct?

Disclaimer: I've only done this on my own personal systems, and just been too lazy to remount in a more sensible place like /mnt or even somewhere in ~/ - in production I mount in a sensible manner. :)

popey commented 6 years ago

I don't think you can circumvent the security model with a symlink ;).

You can mount the same partition twice though. So for your muscle memory lazy brain, leave the old mount point. For your new snap future, use the "standard" one.

mainmachine commented 6 years ago

Ah, that's a fantastic point, and one I'd forgotten as usually there's no need to make more than one mount point.

I will try it and close this issue, as it's kind of a fringe request anyway. :)