Goneri Le Bouder wrote:
> I wonder if it's not a better solution to provide a script in the
> urbanterror package that download urbanterror files.
Please don't do this. :(
* There is plently of "prior art" in including large -data packages for
games (nexuiz-data, for example).
* It's unfair on people with low bandwidth or no internet access,
especially as it won't even appear on Debian DVDs.
* It bypasses existing mirroring setups, such as local mirrors or APT
caches: If I host a LAN party, my local Debian mirror can provide most
of the games we want to play at ~50MiB/s. However, if a game package was
merely a wrapper, my guests would then start to--perhaps concurrently--
downloading large files from the internet at a relatively awful speed.
It would, of course, be possible to provide a means of supplying the
file manually instead of downloading, but this is really awkward, and
is no better than just providing the .deb of the -data package.
Regards,
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Chris Lamb, UK chris@chris-lamb.co.uk
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