On 15 August 2010 17:49, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym@gmail.com> wrote:
Le dimanche 15 août 2010 09:38:06, Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit :
On 15.08.2010 09:16, Angel Velásquez wrote:
Well, I am not against those games.. and stuff, but, if adding 6 games == ~3GB .. repos will have to syncronize and waste a lot of bandwith with these games.
The toll will be 1600MB at worst, so not that big of an issue. Even then, I kind of dislike the use of "waste" here. If these packages are useful or even fun, how can one be talking of a waste? Also, 1600MB in either disk space or bandwidth should be not a problem at all for our mirrors compared to the daily amount Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora packages, ISO spins and whatnot that they have to mirror. Debian alone takes 430GB for a full mirror. Arch is smaller than a tenth of that.
I'd say that since games are popular they should have their own repo .. like [games] (please don't kill me), last time I said that was because of nexuiz .. so people who like to have some repos, can decide if download games or not... (I particurarly won't do it for my personal purposes since I don't use to game, not in pc, not in Linux, not now :P).
If mirror size and bandwidth are not issues, how to justify a [games] repo? Also, [games] may only mark the beginning. Why not also [office], [multimedia] and [dev]? I really don't want to go there. Adding more repos will only make Arch less simple but what do we gain?
But if those packages are popular and maintainer can handle the bandwidth and mirrors won't complain about it, im fine with it.
Cheers
Well, I said I'd be fine with the maintaining.
Lot of packages could be splitted to get a common data part.
I'm with angvp on this. As long as we don't get any significant 'oh-crap' from this being done, I'll be more than happy to have allowed you to do this. So, go ahead. Btw, third-party repos should never be a factor here. Arch-Games is independent (and it works). And also, try to refrain from comparing to other distros. It's none of our business. Caveat: I like UrbanTerror. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD