Introducing Minetest

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Fri Dec 2 14:01:57 UTC 2011


>> I am not sure about the
>> Requires:       %{name}-server = %{version}-%{release}
>>
>> shouldn't we be able to install only the client, if there is already a
>> server running somewhere?
>>
>> /me, not a packager… yet
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I thought about this. But since minetest-server package has only one
> rather small binary inside, and has no any server-specific
> dependencies, it costs almost nothing to install it. And I think it is
> better to install by default the game in its full form. So player will
> be able to run yum install minetest and to play, without knowing
> anything else about the internal structure of the game.

The problem with this is that you can't really achieve this.  You can't
have the minetest enabled by default.  Plus, this would mean that you
couldn't run a minetest server without installing the full game.  IMHO,
it's best to keep them separate.

-J

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