Separate Games repository suggestion.

firewalker · 2010-12-26 17:37:12

I noticed today that with the addition of the xonotic game there are about 6 Gbytes of games in community.

Maybe a games repository would be useful.

karol · 2010-12-26 18:04:44

There's already

[arch-games]
# The Arch Linux Gaming repository project
Server = http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686
Server = http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/x86_64/

and I think games are a category of packages, like KDElibs etc.

What would be the benefit of having a new repo?

Last edited by karol (2010-12-26 18:08:25)

firewalker · 2010-12-26 18:11:48

karol wrote:

There's already
[arch-games]
# The Arch Linux Gaming repository project
Server = http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/i686
Server = http://pseudoform.org/arch-games/games/x86_64/
and I think games are a category of packages, like KDElibs etc.
What would be the benefit of having a new repo?

I think it is a third party repository. As long as there are quite some data of games in community and exta I think that a new game repository would useful.

karol · 2010-12-26 18:14:35

But useful in what way??
pacnet is not perfect, but can help a bit if you're searching for packages from a particular category: http://pacnet.archlinux.pl/category/games-fps/

tomd123 · 2010-12-26 18:27:54

Ya, I also don't see the benefit of an additional repository.

chris-kun · 2010-12-26 19:28:56

firewalker wrote:

I think it is a third party repository. As long as there are quite some data of games in community and exta I think that a new game repository would useful.

...so? what purpose would it serve? none. If you want to be technical about it I 'spose [community] is "third-party" as well as it isn't maintained by the arch devs.

Allan · 2010-12-26 22:44:28

The only advantage I can think of is that if you rsync the repos, you could exclude games... but if you are doing an rsync of the repos you probably enjoy wasting bandwidth anyway as no-one needs the entire repo.

firewalker · 2010-12-26 23:02:39

Yes, I am using a local mirror of the i686 for some computers. For a single computer there is no reason for a local mirror. But for some computers owned by different users in a location that the maximum internet speed is 2 Mps it make sense. You get to sync your local mirror during hours with minimum network usage (night hours). So when you have to -Syu or fetch a big packet...

I have to adjust the exclude files manually. A games repo would make things easier.

karol · 2010-12-26 23:12:15

firewalker wrote:

I have to adjust the exclude files manually. A games repo would make things easier.

And other people might want to exclude KDE libs, Gnome stuff etc.
How many packages do you have to exclude? 20?
If you don't want to sync big packages use an expac script that will notify you that there's a new big package in the repos.

karol · 2010-12-28 14:28:47

I see that 'games' group is not really used:

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Sg games
games fretsonfire-alarian-mod
games gate88

both of which are from arch-games repo.
Many packages have 'None' as their group.

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#1 2010-12-26 17:37:12

Separate Games repository suggestion.

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