[arch-general] Why not create a new repo specified for games ?

[Mauro Santos]

On 01-11-2011 17:34, Leonid Isaev wrote:
> On (11/01/11 16:40), Matej Ľach wrote:
> -~> I support this idea.
> -~> Keep most games in AUR and the more popular ones can have their
> -~> own repo [games] on a separate server.
> -~> This server could be community financed using donations and if not
> -~> enough interest will be raised for new repo, all these huge games
> -~> can be moved to AUR and the smaller ones can stay in [community].
> -~> 
> -~> That's my view at it.
> -~> 
> 
> +1, but what I can't understand is why the MiB size is a figure of merit?
> Instead a more relevant question, imho, is why waste server resources and time
> on bad software?
> 
> Most of these games are either from 1990 era or developed simply for fun and
> have poor quality, especially compared to multi-million budgeted Windows games.
> And look at the number of game pkgs per TU in community. Most likely these
> packages are simply being routinely rebuilt without seeing much usage.
> 

So in short you mean the community should dismiss free linux games only
because they have low usage and are developed/maintained in the spare
time of their maintainers/developers, which most of the times have very
small or nonexistent budgets and instead favor multi-million budgeted
games which most of the times although pretty and shinny are utter
rubbish in every other respect.

By that logic we might as well stop using gnu/linux in the desktop since
the global usage falls within statistical uncertainty levels or as some
would would like it to be, a rounding error.

-- 
Mauro Santos