Hi!! As a FPS game lover, I do play a lot of ioquake3's derived games and want to improve the support of them in Mageia. Fedora has an ioquake3 package which support several Quake III derived games with proprietary license data. This are the games supported by this package: - Official Quake III demo - Urban Terror - World Of Padman
The ioquake3 package creates a sub package for ioquake3 and each of the supported games, and each of this packages include a script to auto-download the proprietary license game data at first run of the game using the autodownloader program. When any of the games listed above is run, a window will popup displaying the game license and upon agreeing on it, the script will download the game data from a predefined list of mirrors and install it in the proper place. Openarena is also supported to be used with ioquake3 engine instead of it's own engine, but doesn't auto-download the game content, it will use the openarena package in repos (as we currently do) for game data files. Also we could use the same auto-download technique with other games which already exist on the repos (openarena, alienarena, sauerbraten, nexuiz), and save some gigabytes of space on mirrors, or add support for other ioquake3-based games like Smokin' Guns (which I plan to do soon). I have already adapted this package to Mageia's policies and works fine. The idea would be to replace our current ioquake3 package with this new one so we can add support for the previous mentioned games. Also it would be a good time to cleanup a little this package and remove useless stuff like the old Loki installer ifdef's. I can put the src package somewhere before replacing our ioquake3 package if someone wants to take a look at it. WDYT ? -- Juancho
