Splitting the game server packages?

[Michael Thomas]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was going through the debian games package list and notice that they 
> split out the server parts into a separate package for many games.
> 
> Examples include:
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=alien-arena-server
> http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/openarena-server
> 
> Fedora games packagers might want to consider following a similar 
> strategy too.

+1

Some games already have separate -server packages (or -client) 
subpackages (crossfire, cyphesis vs. sear, xpilot-ng, poker2d), and I've 
submitted a patch for bzflag so that it can be run as a server as well 
(BZ #198929)

I suspect that games like openarena and alienarena only need an init 
script that calls the app with the appropriate -daemon/-server/-network 
flags.  I would also strongly recommend that any/all -server subpackages 
include a -selinux subpackage as well, for enhanced security.  I will 
volunteer to help anyone who wants to add the -server and -selinux 
subpackages to existing games.

--Wart