Hi! * Jack Coulter <jscinoz@gmail.com> [080416 09:53]: > Not sure if this would work, but what if you simply had a data-repository > package that contained nothing but the custom sources.list for > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ [..] ... probably the keyring for that repository, too. > [..] and had all the games with -data packages (which > would be on the main archive) depend on it, and thus, the first time > someone tries to install a game with a -data package it would add the > repository. Probably not depends, but recommend. Just because we have our own repository and can activate it by installing a seperate package doesn't mean we can ignore policy regarding the current definition of main. > Although the problem is it would need to be done in two apt operations, > apt-get update would need to be called in between installing the repository > package, and actually installing games. Yes, but where is the problem? The current suggested solution would still be to have games as well as minimal -data packages in main (or contrib if you can't provide a minimal -data package). Games packages having a huge -data package in the seperate repository / section could recommends the keyring/sources.list-addition package, which would make it as easy as possible to install it. Not a very nice solution, but the best we can without bending the policy in a way, which shouldn't be done. Yours sincerely, Alexander
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