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.
This problem is not games specific (e.g: flashplugin-nonfree use such
method to retrieve flash from unofficial repository).
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