"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@home.com> writes: > In the bug you state your intention is to simply offer a downloader > that will retrieve the games. And this is available already. > So why all of the dpkg confusion here? Seems mucking with dpkg's > files is a BAD idea. Well, my goal is to make upgrading "just work" without downloading more than necessary. But you're probably right in that the contortions are not worth it. > Although I wonder why we even need an installer package since > downloading these amounts to browsing an ftp archive and grabbing > one or two files. Perhaps we should just remove the packages and > forget about it. Not all problems need an engineering solution. But ... but ... engineering is fun. Think of it this way: we're sweating-off 6 non-free packages for the price of an additional contrib installer package. All without losing any significant functionality. -- Robbe
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