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Re: Newer vegastrike : can we package that big ?



In fact, it would REQUIRE at least two entries in sources.list, at
least for games; one for main, one for data.
But that is hardly solvable if we want a solution that will satisfy
all: ftpmasters, mirrors and upstream's greater hunger and demands.

On 4/15/08, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > Does it really need to be an additional archive? I would propose
> > to use an additional archive section, like "data" and provide a
> > convenient way for mirror operators to opt this section in.
>
> I like this idea, but I believe there should be two sections for free
> and non-free data (e.g. data and data-non-free).
>
> Packages in main could be then allowed to depend on free data packages,
> but this would lead to a problem:  If the chosen mirror does not offer
> the data section, there would be uninstallable packages in main...
> Of course this could be solved by adding another mirror to the
> sources.list, but it seems a bit complicated (when should it be added
> and based on which choice?).
>
> Regards,
> Ansgar
>
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