Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-games
Case Study:
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User side:
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Peter is a normal user who do not know technical side of Ubuntu (debian
packages, etc.). He use 'gnome-app-install' to do everything when it comes to
software add/remove. He hates Nibble game and want to remove it but it comes at
a price (all other games will be removed along as well). He asks for Ubuntu
developer if he could remove individual game w/o having to remove other game.
Developer side:
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gnome-games is debianized-packaged a collection of all the games thus leaving
no option to remove individual game. Digging into the gnome-games vanilla
source code, the GNOME developers does provide configure flag to compile
individual game. By creating separate deb package for each game, developer can
make gnome-games a meta-package to install all games.
Pros: modular installation approach, give Peter what he wants and will
be very flexible if any games move over to new library such as gnometris
is now starting to use libclutter.
Cons: harder to maintain, more time and effort to push it back to debian
I guess
OS affected:
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Ubuntu: pre to 9.04
** Affects: gnome-games (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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split gnome-games debian pacakge to many packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376744
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