Le dimanche 15 août 2010 09:38:06, Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit : > On 15.08.2010 09:16, Angel Velásquez wrote: > > Well, I am not against those games.. and stuff, but, if adding 6 games > > == ~3GB .. repos will have to syncronize and waste a lot of bandwith > > with these games. > > The toll will be 1600MB at worst, so not that big of an issue. Even > then, I kind of dislike the use of "waste" here. If these packages are > useful or even fun, how can one be talking of a waste? Also, 1600MB in > either disk space or bandwidth should be not a problem at all for our > mirrors compared to the daily amount Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora packages, ISO > spins and whatnot that they have to mirror. Debian alone takes 430GB for > a full mirror. Arch is smaller than a tenth of that. > > > I'd say that since games are popular they should have their own repo > > .. like [games] (please don't kill me), last time I said that was > > because of nexuiz .. so people who like to have some repos, can decide > > if download games or not... (I particurarly won't do it for my > > personal purposes since I don't use to game, not in pc, not in Linux, > > not now :P). > > If mirror size and bandwidth are not issues, how to justify a [games] > repo? Also, [games] may only mark the beginning. Why not also [office], > [multimedia] and [dev]? I really don't want to go there. Adding more > repos will only make Arch less simple but what do we gain? > > > But if those packages are popular and maintainer can handle the > > bandwidth and mirrors won't complain about it, im fine with it. > > > > Cheers > > Well, I said I'd be fine with the maintaining.
Lot of packages could be splitted to get a common data part. ++
