Re: suggestions for gnome-games 2.18

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk iki fi>]

On Sun, September 3, 2006 14:18, Andreas Røsdal said:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>
>>Having read the request for suggestions, my main one would be to produce
>>a separate package for the card games and to ensure that it builds using
>>bare minimum dependencies, avoiding any dependency beyond GTK2.
>>
>>That would mean Aisleriot, Blackjack, Freecell and Hearts as a separate
>>package called gnome-card-games, built on extremely spartan dependencies
>>similar to what gnome-hearts currently demands.
>
> It is currently possible to configure which games that should be compiles
> as a parameter to configure, so you may decide which games you want to
> include.

That has nothing to do with it.  Distributions tend to follow the upstream
GNOME package nomenclature when packaging the desktop, which gives users
an all-or-nothing choice of either getting ALL of the games as a 20Mb
bundle or to skip games entirely.  Besides, there is no easy way to
geneate separate targets during package building, because some games share
private libraries, sound files and icons.  There is no simple way to get a
target built against the bare minimum libraries either.

> I don't think it's a good idea to create many separate packages for the
> various games.

I disagree. A monolithic 20Mb bundle is too much.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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