On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 11:57:21PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > If the only practical use of the engine is to run non-free levels from > id, then it belongs in contrib. But that's obviously not the case. A game engine, especially one coded in large part by a luminary in the fieldlike John Carmack, is interesting and useful (to programmers) in its own right. We wouldn't stick a Free compiler or interpreter for some new-fangled programming language in contrib simply because no Free programs written in that language were yet packaged for Debian. I would, however, be tempted to mark such an engine as Priority extra until Free game levels were packaged for Debian, so that Debian's many non-programming users would not get their hopes up at being able to play the game in Debian as distributed. -- G. Branden Robinson | You can have my PGP passphrase when Debian GNU/Linux | you pry it from my cold, dead branden@debian.org | brain. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Adam Thornton
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