On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 21:56, Loui Chang <louipc.ist@gmail.com> wrote:
You can help make it more prominent by maintaining your games there! I don't think it needs to be official, or even semi-official to be trusted, or usable. Hey look at kdemod.
Agreed.
Also if anyone is interested in maintaining stuff there, talk to Stythys or myself :)
I'm neutral. I think having popular games in [community] and thus available through pacman by default offers a good user experience. If they were in another repo several users will be left with the impression that Arch is lacking in packages, even if it's only a superficial impression. When someone previously threw a fit about large games in [community], one of the arguments for keeping them was that users expect them to be there and that that is the very point of the [community] repo... to provide packages users want. At the same time, I understand that there is only a small proportion of users who actually play games and thus the size/usage ratio is probably not justifiable. If we were to do this, PKGBUILDs and local source files should be made available for the games, preferably in a $repo.abs.tar.gz package as I've previously requested for arch-games (not sure if that went anywhere).