On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 at 01:31:21 +0200, Arno Töll wrote: > On 16.07.2011 00:20, Christopher Baines wrote: > > The actual package would just contain the rules and checksums for the > > files it tries to fetch, but not the data itself > > just as a random alternative idea (where other people may judge whether > it is a good idea or not): There might still be benefits of letting dpkg > handle the installation stuff, even if you don't want to have such a > large amount of data in the archives.
It might be worth comparing the old quake2-data (see snapshot.debian.org) with game-data-packager's use to produce quake3-data etc. - the former behaves as Christopher suggested, the latter behaves as Arno suggested. (This is mainly for legal reasons - the data files are proprietary and must not be distributed - but if they were non-free-but-distributable we might still want to use g-d-p for size reasons.) I noticed the other day that Ubuntu still has an old copy of quake3-data from pkg-games svn, which behaves like quake2-data used to. I should probably ask them to remove it, since they also have game-data-packager... S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110716120243.ga23...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk