Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: >Am 21.10.2011 15:57, schrieb Sergej Pupykin: >> At Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:43:12 -0300, >> Ángel Velásquez <[email protected]> wrote: >>> And.. Sergej, please try to focus on the problem that brings having >>> huge packages and add the fact if those huge packages won't be >>> demanded it will be a waste of space + mirror bandwidth. >>> >> >> Is it really problem? I have no info about disk space and >> bandwitdth problems. >> >> If yes, we should define what does "huge" means. And should we apply >> "huge" criteria only to games? > >Resources are always limited. There are disk space constraints on >sigurd (which holds the AUR and community repo). You may add about 5 to >10GB packages here. And don't forget that you also have to host the >sources for e.g. GPL packages. Bandwidth for our main server is also >very limited. But if those big packages don't get updated to often this >is acceptable. > >Let's also not forget about our mirrors who will have to handle the >increasing needs for disk space and especially bandwidth and traffic. >Especially for those countries where these resources are not cheap. >E.g. >we were told that mirrors in South Amercia dropped Arch for these >reasons. > >Long story short: I would ask the TUs to use their resources more >responsible. Of course we can talk about increasing disk space etc. if >really needed but this wont help for long if everybody thinks there >were >no limitations. Maybe it would be wise to decide on an upper bound for >the community repo size and to operate within this limitation. > >But this should be handled within the TU group; I just wanted to make >aware of a potential problem. > >Greetings, > >Pierre > >-- >Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
I was very aware of these limitations (and this exact issue has come up a few times in the past) and thus I asked for opinions on replacement on this list and didn't just blindly add the package. I also hoped we wouldn't have to discuss this again due to me wanting to either replace it or keep it like it is. I was not suggesting to have both packages. Things went a little off-topic here. As it stands, it looks like xonotic devs would be a lot happier if I replaced nexuiz and eventually players would be too. AUR sounds like a fine place for nexuiz. -- Sven-Hendrik
