Bug#757029: debian-games: Please also provide a meta package for all minesweeper implementations in Debian

[Markus Koschany]

Hi Axel,

On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 19:00:32 +0200 Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: debian-games
> Version: 0.9
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Debian Games Team,
> 
> with great joy I saw all the neat games-* meta packages in Aptitude's
> New Packages list this evening.

You're welcome!

> I though miss one such package: games-minesweeper
> 
> There are so many and partially very interesting minesweeper variants
> (e.g. triangles and hexagons :-) in Debian, so that I think it valids
> its own meta package.

I thought that such a request would pop up sometime but not so fast. :)
I'm not sure yet how many subsets of metapackages are useful. For
example there are a lot more "shoot'em up" games in Debian than
minesweeper games. If we created games-minesweeper we would have to
accept a "games-shootemup" metapackage as well.


> Proposed packages which should be pulled in by that metapackage:
> 
>   ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games
>   freesweep - text-based minesweeper
>   gnome-mines - popular minesweeper puzzle game for GNOME
>   gnomine - popular minesweeper puzzle game for GNOME (transitional package)
>   kmines - minesweeper game
>   sgt-puzzles - Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection - 1-player puzzle games
>   xbomb - 'minesweeper' game with squares, hexagons or triangles
>   xdemineur - Yet another minesweeper for X

The list of proposed packages looks fine. However it might be that
gnome-mines and kmines would only be suggested because I want to avoid
that core components of two major desktop environments are pulled in
without good reasons. There are also already specialized metapackages
for KDE and Gnome that install games as well: kdegames and gnome-games

> And of course, there's also aptitude. But that's surely at most a
> Suggests. But having it in games-minesweeper as Suggests would be really
> cool. ;-)

Funny and nice idea. It seems I forgot about this easter-egg. :)

> (I actually thought there were even more minesweeper implementations in
> Debian. But so far I only found one more which got removed from Debian
> recently, i.e. is still in Squeeze: mines.app)

I will think about this metapackage and about a couple of other ones. In
the meantime you can quickly install all those games with "aptitude
install games-puzzle" and you'll get some other interesting ones as a
bonus too.

Regards,

Markus







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