[aur-general] Huge packages in community

[Angel Velásquez]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 12:05 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote:
>> A solution could be:
>>
>> a) Creating an official repo called [games] or something like, where
>> TUs and Devs can put games there (huge games principally.
>>
>> b) Definetively not upload games to the repos
>>
>> I am the administrator of two official mirrors, and watching this
>> situation I am really worried if packages > 250 mb (games) will be
>> downloaded / updated eventually and I will have to waste GBs on this.
>>
>> Please don't take this personal, but IIRC "Gerolde" was suffering for
>> the lack of space months ago, and even if this package and those huge
>> popular games > 250 mb doesn't merely to be on the official repos,
>> frankly (but thanks for the effort to waste the disk space Xyne!).
>>
>> Anyway, that's my humble opinion.
>
> c) splitting up the package in a game and a game-data package, where
> game-data is architecture-independent using the -any architecture.
>
> The -any architecture is still work in progress, but it will get there.
> Besides nexuiz, there's also Battle for Wesnoth in the extra repository
> that could use this treatment. Not only does it save disk space, it will
> also save bandwidth for the ones who upload and for the ones who mirror.
>
>

This should work btw, i don't know if the split option are active now
in the makepkg, but I saw a thread with an example of Allan, I assume
at least is closer to be done, then we should wait until -any
architecture 8-).

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve>:
>> Common sens people, games are not necessary software, games are
>> optional software, necessary software is that which means
>> "productivity" or "required" (like drivers, etc).
>
> Games may be required for gaming computers.
> I don't think that Arch really dictates what you should be using the distro for.
> It may be programming, accounting, communicating, or gaming perhaps.
>

Yes but in times of saving space of bandwidth, no matter how harder
you want to think that gaming are as necessary like programming,
accounting, and other areas ;)


But Jan's solution, should works for all, and everybody will be happy :)

Cheers!
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Angel Velásquez
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