On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jan de Groot <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 12:05 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote: >> A solution could be: >> >> a) Creating an official repo called [games] or something like, where >> TUs and Devs can put games there (huge games principally. >> >> b) Definetively not upload games to the repos >> >> I am the administrator of two official mirrors, and watching this >> situation I am really worried if packages > 250 mb (games) will be >> downloaded / updated eventually and I will have to waste GBs on this. >> >> Please don't take this personal, but IIRC "Gerolde" was suffering for >> the lack of space months ago, and even if this package and those huge >> popular games > 250 mb doesn't merely to be on the official repos, >> frankly (but thanks for the effort to waste the disk space Xyne!). >> >> Anyway, that's my humble opinion. > > c) splitting up the package in a game and a game-data package, where > game-data is architecture-independent using the -any architecture. > > The -any architecture is still work in progress, but it will get there. > Besides nexuiz, there's also Battle for Wesnoth in the extra repository > that could use this treatment. Not only does it save disk space, it will > also save bandwidth for the ones who upload and for the ones who mirror. > >
This should work btw, i don't know if the split option are active now in the makepkg, but I saw a thread with an example of Allan, I assume at least is closer to be done, then we should wait until -any architecture 8-). On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Loui <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez <[email protected]>: >> Common sens people, games are not necessary software, games are >> optional software, necessary software is that which means >> "productivity" or "required" (like drivers, etc). > > Games may be required for gaming computers. > I don't think that Arch really dictates what you should be using the distro > for. > It may be programming, accounting, communicating, or gaming perhaps. > Yes but in times of saving space of bandwidth, no matter how harder you want to think that gaming are as necessary like programming, accounting, and other areas ;) But Jan's solution, should works for all, and everybody will be happy :) Cheers! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909
