alienarena removed from games spin for F13 due to size

[Nicu Buculei]

On 02/16/2010 06:43 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> With the increased size of the desktop spin (upon which games is based) and
> I think some game data sets getting a bit bigger it was going to be hard to
> get the games spin down to size by cutting out desktop stuff. Instead for
> this release I cut one of the largest games, alienarena, from the spin.
> While the game will be missed, this seemed to be the best course for F13.

Did this leave the games spin with no 3D shooter? Considering shooters 
are one of the most important game genres, is possible to replace 
alienarena with something smaller?

> For F14 things look very good for getting back 10% of the games spin size
> (about 400 MB) using lzma for compressing spins. That should allow me to
> get alienarena back in again, barring significant increases in the size
> of other games or the desktop spin.

AFAIK, one of the main reasons of size increase in the Desktop spin is 
the addition of OpenOffice.org, did you remove that? How about some 
other big space eaters?

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