On 15 August 2010 17:49, Laurent Carlier <[email protected]> wrote: > Le dimanche 15 août 2010 09:38:06, Sven-Hendrik Haase a écrit : >> On 15.08.2010 09:16, Angel Velásquez wrote: >> > Well, I am not against those games.. and stuff, but, if adding 6 games >> > == ~3GB .. repos will have to syncronize and waste a lot of bandwith >> > with these games. >> >> The toll will be 1600MB at worst, so not that big of an issue. Even >> then, I kind of dislike the use of "waste" here. If these packages are >> useful or even fun, how can one be talking of a waste? Also, 1600MB in >> either disk space or bandwidth should be not a problem at all for our >> mirrors compared to the daily amount Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora packages, ISO >> spins and whatnot that they have to mirror. Debian alone takes 430GB for >> a full mirror. Arch is smaller than a tenth of that. >> >> > I'd say that since games are popular they should have their own repo >> > .. like [games] (please don't kill me), last time I said that was >> > because of nexuiz .. so people who like to have some repos, can decide >> > if download games or not... (I particurarly won't do it for my >> > personal purposes since I don't use to game, not in pc, not in Linux, >> > not now :P). >> >> If mirror size and bandwidth are not issues, how to justify a [games] >> repo? Also, [games] may only mark the beginning. Why not also [office], >> [multimedia] and [dev]? I really don't want to go there. Adding more >> repos will only make Arch less simple but what do we gain? >> >> > But if those packages are popular and maintainer can handle the >> > bandwidth and mirrors won't complain about it, im fine with it. >> > >> > Cheers >> >> Well, I said I'd be fine with the maintaining. > > Lot of packages could be splitted to get a common data part.
I'm with angvp on this. As long as we don't get any significant 'oh-crap' from this being done, I'll be more than happy to have allowed you to do this. So, go ahead. Btw, third-party repos should never be a factor here. Arch-Games is independent (and it works). And also, try to refrain from comparing to other distros. It's none of our business. Caveat: I like UrbanTerror. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
