[aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic

[Ángel Velásquez]

2011/10/21 Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org>:
> On 10/21/2011 11:00 AM, Massimiliano Torromeo wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Gaetan Bisson<bisson at archlinux.org>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> [2011-10-21 08:45:46 +0200] Dieter Plaetinck:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:50:31 +0200
>>>> Sven-Hendrik Haase<sh at lutzhaase.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is
>>>>> that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead
>>>>> upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic.
>>>>> Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is
>>>>> somewhat different.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like some opinions on this.
>>>>
>>>> hi, imho:
>>>> different game ->  additional package
>>>> nexuiz still popular ->  keep package as is.
>>>
>>> My two cents: I'm of those who believe that we can't keep throwing 1GB
>>> packages in the repos like there's no tomorrow. So if nexuiz and xonotic
>>> are quite similar, it makes sense to only package one of them and save
>>> the extra gigabyte for a different game.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gaetan
>>>
>>
>> I think that's the wrong reason for choosing to keep only one of the
>> two packages.
>> If the sizes of the packages are problematic that's a different issue.
>>
>> That said, being nexuiz a dead project may be a good enough reason to
>> remove it.
>> If not for that I would keep them both.
>
> i say to remove all games :D
>

+1000 oh yeah, no kidding here :)

> --
> Ionuț
>



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