Hey, while trying to package FreeRA[1] a free (as in speech) Command & Conquer: Red Alert (C&C2, 1996) engine and talking with Jon on IRC, I stumbled over the problem, how to find the game data (which needs to be copied from the original game cd-rom and is non-distributable). 1. game installs as usual via apt-get (without a dep on a data package) and the user gets an error message upon start, he should copy the two files to /somepath (which path should it be in that case?) 2. let the package depend on a non-existing (in the archive) freera-data, which has to be built with Jon's game-package The second way is cleaner in the sense of packet management, but makes freera at first uninstallable without a reason shown to the user (he would have to read the long-desc to know about the data stuff). What do you think? Regards Evgeni [1] http://www.freera.org
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