Re: suggestions for gnome-games 2.18

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk iki fi>]

On Sun, September 3, 2006 15:23, Thomas Dybdahl Ahle said:
> søn, 03 09 2006 kl. 14:58 +0300, skrev Martin-�ric Racine:
>> On Sun, September 3, 2006 14:18, Andreas Røsdal said:
>> > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Martin-Ã?ric Racine wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> But hundred packages with different cardgames, are all too many too.

Who said anything about hundreds of packages?
Besides, there's only 16 games in the bundle as it is.

> Most users won't mind, if 20Mb of their harddisk is used for cardgames.

I do.  I have been repeatedly able to verify that I'm far from being the
only one.

> Then on the other hand the wow factor, of hacing hundred cardgames to
select from is much more important.

No.

The suggestion was about packaging into smaller bundles, starting with
card games, not about splitting things to microscopic scale.

There's absolutely nothing preventing distributions from making
metapackages that depend on the whole game collection. It's very easy to 
bundle several games that way. However, dong things the other way around,
that is to prepare smaller game sets from the build scripts, is currently
WAY too complicated.

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Martin-Éric Racine
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