Games spin update

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun May 10 16:02:08 UTC 2009


On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 20:06:14 +0530,
  Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 05/10/2009 07:58 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > I missed that Urban Terror and World of Padman need to download content in
> > order to be playable. I don't think this is appropriate for the livedvd
> > and have pulled them from the spin (and updated the spin page).
> 
> As I noted before, check for packages that depend on autodownloader. All
> of them require additional content to be downloaded. FWIW, the consensus
> in a previous discussion was that games using autodownloaded can be
> included in the games spin. You are free to change this as the spin
> maintainer however.

I took your advice previously, but didn't do the check correctly. I forgot
to do a recursive check and the two games above depend on quake3 which
depends on autodownloader. I ran across the issue when trying out Urban
Terror and figured out what probably went wrong when I last looked and
then also found World of Padman had been missed.

I personally don't think having games which need downloadable content for
the games spin is a good idea. I don't think it is so bad that no exceptions
could be made. If the size of the needed content is small and the game
is particularly unique and good making an exception would be reasonable.




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