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    • Simon McVittie's avatar
      Distinguish between the Steam installation (root) and data paths · 41ac7a82
      Simon McVittie authored
      
      Until now we've been conflating these two, but Timothee Besset recently
      clarified their status for me.
      
      ~/.steam/steam is maintained by bin_steam.sh, aka /usr/bin/steam,
      in which it is referred to as STEAMDATALINK. It is the data directory
      containing user data (cloud-synced configuration and saves), the
      download cache, and the default Steam Library directory.
      
      ~/.steam/root is maintained by steam.sh, in which it is referred to as
      STEAMROOTLINK. It is the installation directory, containing Steam
      executables and libraries.
      
      As a result, they are normally the same, but can differ, in particular
      in two situations:
      
      * When testing a new Steam client build by running client/steam.sh,
        client/ gets used as the installation directory, in conjunction with
        the existing data directory pointed to by ~/.steam/steam. This avoids
        having to re-login or re-download your library of games for the new
        test installation.
      
      * When Debian bug #916303 was present during the initial Steam
        installation, the Steam client was unpacked into ~/.steam, resulting
        in creation of ~/.steam/steam as a real directory that cannot be
        replaced with a symbolic link. We effectively ended up using
        ~/.steam as the installation path, but with ~/.steam/steam as the
        data path. (The Debian steam package has since been fixed, but we
        cannot easily disentangle existing installations.)
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSimon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
      41ac7a82
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