[Mageia-discuss] Packaging games (Was: IMPORTANT POINTS)

Sun Sep 19 19:19:40 CEST 2010

  Le 2010-09-19 12:40, Renaud MICHEL a écrit :
+> On dimanche 19 septembre 2010 at 13:19, Maarten Vanraes wrote :
+>> in my pov games are an important element of the targeted public.
+> I agree, games are an important part of the experience people expect from
+> their computer (even I, being a geek and programmer, agree with that,
+> although I have too few spare time for that ;-) ).
+>
+> And there are now many great free (either as in beer or speach) games for
+> Linux that should be promoted. (I see frequently announces for such games on
+> linuxfr.org).
+>
+> But maybe all those big games should be placed in their own, separate
+> repository, so that people using the distribution for work (like
+> enterprises) could easily mirror the main repository but skipping that one
+> (which could quickly weight tens of GiB with all those great games available
+> out there).
+> Just like it is already done with the non-free repository for those who want
+> only a really free OS.
+>
+> Just a personal thought.
+>
+> Cheers
+I agree. The Mdv systems I have installed, the owners would not have 
+been interested in games and most are using it for work purposes (from 
+their homes). I agree also that the most basic of games should still be 
+included (the ones installed from Mandriva are fine) and a separate repo 
+for the games be made available.
+
+Marc
+