Bug#167372: Splitting GNOME Games

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at canonical.com
Tue May 25 02:20:26 UTC 2010


Are people still opposed to splitting the games?  We have been 
delivering GNOME Games as a split package since 2.27.92 (Ubuntu 9.04).  
I am a GNOME Games developer and Ubuntu packager.  I am very keen to 
push this patch into Debian, please let me know if you are interested.

The reasons I split the package:
- Users don't understand why they can't remove individual games (hiding 
them in the menu is not a good solution)
- There are too many games for a default installation - this clutters up 
the menu, we reduced the default number to 5
- The GNOME Games project provides games in differing levels of quality 
and using different technology.  We can now pick the best and not 
require so many dependencies on our CD.

Thanks,
--Robert Ancell







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