Hi Markus, Markus Koschany wrote: > > I though miss one such package: games-minesweeper > > > > There are so many and partially very interesting minesweeper variants > > (e.g. triangles and hexagons :-) in Debian, so that I think it valids > > its own meta package. > > I thought that such a request would pop up sometime but not so fast. :)
Hehe. > I'm not sure yet how many subsets of metapackages are useful. For > example there are a lot more "shoot'em up" games in Debian than > minesweeper games. If we created games-minesweeper we would have to > accept a "games-shootemup" metapackage as well. You've got some point. The only difference I see is that minesweeper has become famous through one particular non-free implementation and most of the implementation are quite close to the original. So I'd think that way more people will know what they get from a minesweepers meta package than a more generic sounding shoot them up meta package. But then again, this view may be heavily influenced by how I grew up (DOS and Windows 2/3/95, not C64, not Amiga, not Atari). > > Proposed packages which should be pulled in by that metapackage: > > > > ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games > > freesweep - text-based minesweeper > > gnome-mines - popular minesweeper puzzle game for GNOME > > gnomine - popular minesweeper puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package) > > kmines - minesweeper game > > sgt-puzzles - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle > > games > > xbomb - 'minesweeper' game with squares, hexagons or triangles > > xdemineur - Yet another minesweeper for X > > The list of proposed packages looks fine. However it might be that > gnome-mines and kmines would only be suggested because I want to avoid > that core components of two major desktop environments are pulled in > without good reasons. Good point! That and the one transitional package make the list even smaller: ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games freesweep - text-based minesweeper sgt-puzzles - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games xbomb - 'minesweeper' game with squares, hexagons or triangles xdemineur - Yet another minesweeper for X > I will think about this metapackage and about a couple of other ones. In > the meantime you can quickly install all those games with "aptitude > install games-puzzle" and you'll get some other interesting ones as a > bonus too. Oh, didn't notice that all those (except the KDE and GNOME one) are already in there, too. For some reason I didn't expect them to count as puzzle. While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle sounds more like Minesweeper isn't a puzzle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) describes it as "single-player puzzle video game". So I should may broaden my idea of what can be a puzzle. :-) So, basically, I'd be happy if that meta package would be added, but I won't be sad if not. I may make my own local meta package in the latter case. :-) Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
