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#1 2014-09-29 03:57:51

knthzh
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Registered: 2014-09-28
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Steampunk: Steam with more Unix-friendly options

Steampunk is a more complete port of Steam to Linux (Arch Linux in particular). It forces XDG directory compliance and makes some of Steam's more questionable behavior configurable via environmental variables.

This package replaces the default steam package available in the official repos.


Features:

  • Configurable by setting environmental variables in /etc/steamvars

  • Allow installation of Steam data files to somewhere other than $XDG_DATA_HOME, such as /opt

  • Optionally prefer native runtime over the Steam runtime to end those pesky linking problems once and for all, at the cost of lower stability due to Steam not having been tested with newer libraries

  • Gets rid of ~/.steam* dotfiles by setting a new home in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for Steam


Link: https://github.com/knthzh/steampunk

I might add more features later on, but for now, these are the only ones I can think of. I dunno how useful this will be to everyone else, but no harm putting it up, I guess?

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#2 2014-10-04 07:16:36

EvanPurkhiser
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Registered: 2010-08-17
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Re: Steampunk: Steam with more Unix-friendly options

I don't have my desktop with Arch on it setup right now, but I'm really excited to try this out! The notion of no more ~/.steam has me all hot and bothered!

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