On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: > Creating a games-all metapackage would be easily doable
As someone who has been trying to maintain a system (rather than metapackage) that is basically that (plus a bunch of games removed from Debian), I don't think it is actually that easy. You could do it based on sections but there are things in the games section that aren't really games and there are things in other sections that are games. You could do it based on debtags but I don't think every game is debtagged. You could do it based on files in /usr/games but not every game uses that. You could do it based on a combination of these things but there are a number of game variants/versions, some of which conflict with each other. At the end of the day it would have to be a curated list like all the games-* metapackages, possibly mostly based on the above things. > there was a more elegant way to solve this problem and if we could avoid > the creation of "meta-metapackages". I could imagine another check box > in tasksel for instance. If checked all separate installable games-* > tasks for users would be selected and all tasks for developers and > artists, the -dev packages, would be excluded. That does sound interesting, but personally I would want a games-all metapackage to exist. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6FHUtvMZL63m_ZPq=acncshygleh5bxcw5xsxtubta...@mail.gmail.com