Re: Bug#460323: ITP: unreal-assistant -- Unreal Tournament packaging helper

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

On 2008-01-12, Simon McVittie <smcv@ianadd.pseudorandom.co.uk> wrote:
> Some more explanation: I intend to have a source package
> unreal-assistant, building binary packages unreal-assistant
> and unrealtournament. The former will be a packaging helper like java-package
> and module-assistant; the latter will basically be a metapackage, which
> depends on non-distributable packages created using unreal-assistant.

I recall that Gentoo hardmasked (i.e. made it hard to install) the old
Unreal games because they had severe security issues and cannot be
fixed.  Apart from that I found it hard to run it on newer kernels,
constant sound chokes and other problems.

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern