Re: Proposal: Fixing non-free content issues via installer packages
At 1153933148 past the epoch, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> --- Eddy PetriÅ?or <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com> escribió:
> > there are lots of games with non-free media but with
> > free engines and simillar things. I was thinking, since
> > in most of the cases the media is not distributable, but
> > free to download, wouldn't it be a good idea to create
> > meta packages which actually download the data files
> > instead?
>
> I think that would be a temporary solution at least. I'm
> for it. At least we'd already have packaged engines and
> some reference data, so it would be positive. In the long
> run, it would be nice to find a replacement for the
> non-free data, but that's too far away from where we are
> now.
One of the things I was looking at before joining
debian-games was a general purpose installer package, to
handle things like ID Software's doom data, Quake data, etc.
Ideally there would be some common stuff we could use for
all of these tasks.
I'm going to return to that once I've got a few other things
out of the way.
--
Jon Dowland
http://alcopop.org/
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