On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Gaetan Bisson <[email protected]> wrote: > [2011-10-21 08:45:46 +0200] Dieter Plaetinck: >> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:50:31 +0200 >> Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is >> > that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead >> > upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic. >> > Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is >> > somewhat different. >> > >> > I'd like some opinions on this. >> >> hi, imho: >> different game -> additional package >> nexuiz still popular -> keep package as is. > > My two cents: I'm of those who believe that we can't keep throwing 1GB > packages in the repos like there's no tomorrow. So if nexuiz and xonotic > are quite similar, it makes sense to only package one of them and save > the extra gigabyte for a different game. > > -- > Gaetan >
I think that's the wrong reason for choosing to keep only one of the two packages. If the sizes of the packages are problematic that's a different issue. That said, being nexuiz a dead project may be a good enough reason to remove it. If not for that I would keep them both.
