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

SinnerBOFH sinnerbofh at gmail.com
Sun Sep 19 20:10:26 CEST 2010


On Sep 19, 2010, at 1:19 PM, Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:

> 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

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http://blogdrake.net/documentacion/juegosdrake

Salut,
Sinner



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