Xyne schrieb: > First off I would like to say that I took over Nexuiz from another TU > so it was not my decision to upload it to community originally. > Nevertheless I found your comment "but thanks for the effort to waste > the disk space Xyne!" to be rude at best and left me wanting to insert > several four-letter words in this reply. First, I fully agree with your reaction. I think it's really unprofessional to blame someone else, just because he's "wasting" your disc space indirectly. Come on, Angel! If that's a problem for you, you should have known it before you put up an mirror. > > Also, according to the statistics page, Nexuiz is in the top 7% of > installed community packages, so its inclusion in community is > appreciated by the users. > > That said, the size of the Nexuiz package is largely due to the game > data itself (textures, maps, etc) and the 3 compiled binaries in the > package are small enough (in that they compile easily and quickly) that > it would make little difference to a user who had to build the package > himself. If other TUs agree that this package would be better off in > the AUR, I will move it there and continue to maintain it (which would > save me the 2x600MB upload of the binary package which takes hours with > my connection). The issue that I see with this is that it Nexuiz would > not longer enjoy any sort of "official" support from Arch and new users > who are not yet familiar with the AUR may be left with the impression > that it is not readily available. Considering the overall popularity of > Nexuiz within the Linux community, this make leave a bad impression > with some users. Don't even think of removing Nexuiz! It's one of the best OSS games and a really a driving force for people switching to Linux. So moving such an important programm to AUR wouldn't do Archlinux itself any favor, especially in the work for public perception!
> > In general though I do not agree with the idea of removing larger > packages simply because the server admin of a given mirror does not > feel that they are worth his effort and bandwidth. Exactly! That's why a server admin is a server admin and not a developer or package maintainer! So long, vinz -- Vinzenz Vietzke www.archmirror.de
