On 27 October 2011 21:30, Ionut Biru
On 10/27/2011 08:33 PM, Karol Blazewicz wrote:
We have a discussion on the forums [1] about Arch's policy towards what packages can be provided in the AUR with the focus on abandonware. User megadriver found a couple packages [2] that provide a means of downloading games for free (as in beer) even though those games can be bought.
Apps can go in and out of the abandonware status as their availability changes: now you can buy them, now you can't. Do we care about this or is it up to the user to check if the stuff he installs is legal? Should we set up a bot to scan for potential 'warez' stuff?
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1008451#p1008451
imo a download link shouldn't be provided. in sources array just add the file name after download, just like a patch and the users can copy them self the downloaded file in the same directory with PKGBUILD
-- Ionuț
+1. It's a common way in other commercial game packages (eg. worldofgoo) and packages where the download of files is not possible for some reason (eg. requires registration, it's not free, …). Besides some people may have the original files and removing such packages would force them to reinvent the wheel. Lukas