[Mageia-discuss] Packaging games (Was: IMPORTANT POINTS)

[Marc Paré]

  Le 2010-09-19 12:40, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
> On dimanche 19 septembre 2010 at 13:19, Maarten Vanraes wrote :
>> in my pov games are an important element of the targeted public.
> I agree, games are an important part of the experience people expect from
> their computer (even I, being a geek and programmer, agree with that,
> although I have too few spare time for that ;-) ).
>
> And there are now many great free (either as in beer or speach) games for
> Linux that should be promoted. (I see frequently announces for such games on
> linuxfr.org).
>
> But maybe all those big games should be placed in their own, separate
> repository, so that people using the distribution for work (like
> enterprises) could easily mirror the main repository but skipping that one
> (which could quickly weight tens of GiB with all those great games available
> out there).
> Just like it is already done with the non-free repository for those who want
> only a really free OS.
>
> Just a personal thought.
>
> Cheers
I agree. The Mdv systems I have installed, the owners would not have 
been interested in games and most are using it for work purposes (from 
their homes). I agree also that the most basic of games should still be 
included (the ones installed from Mandriva are fine) and a separate repo 
for the games be made available.

Marc