Xyne schrieb:
First off I would like to say that I took over Nexuiz from another TU so it was not my decision to upload it to community originally. Nevertheless I found your comment "but thanks for the effort to waste the disk space Xyne!" to be rude at best and left me wanting to insert several four-letter words in this reply. First, I fully agree with your reaction. I think it's really unprofessional to blame someone else, just because he's "wasting" your disc space indirectly. Come on, Angel! If that's a problem for you, you should have known it before you put up an mirror.
Also, according to the statistics page, Nexuiz is in the top 7% of installed community packages, so its inclusion in community is appreciated by the users.
That said, the size of the Nexuiz package is largely due to the game data itself (textures, maps, etc) and the 3 compiled binaries in the package are small enough (in that they compile easily and quickly) that it would make little difference to a user who had to build the package himself. If other TUs agree that this package would be better off in the AUR, I will move it there and continue to maintain it (which would save me the 2x600MB upload of the binary package which takes hours with my connection). The issue that I see with this is that it Nexuiz would not longer enjoy any sort of "official" support from Arch and new users who are not yet familiar with the AUR may be left with the impression that it is not readily available. Considering the overall popularity of Nexuiz within the Linux community, this make leave a bad impression with some users. Don't even think of removing Nexuiz! It's one of the best OSS games and a really a driving force for people switching to Linux. So moving such an important programm to AUR wouldn't do Archlinux itself any favor, especially in the work for public perception!
In general though I do not agree with the idea of removing larger packages simply because the server admin of a given mirror does not feel that they are worth his effort and bandwidth.
Exactly! That's why a server admin is a server admin and not a developer or package maintainer! So long, vinz -- Vinzenz Vietzke www.archmirror.de