New SVN game: Quake III

[Bas Wijnen]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:37:35AM +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Bruno Kleinert wrote:
> > what do you think about splitting up the quake3 binary packages into
> > quake3 (the client), quake3-server and quake3-common? i thought of this,
> > to avoid dependencies on x libraries for people who only want to set up
> > a quake3 server on a remote box.
> 
> IMO it's not worth the effort and clutters the archive. The dedicated server
> is only ~ 700k and nowadays almost any Debian based server needs some X11
> libs installed anyway through indirect dependencies.

I disagree.  Especially these kind of servers may be run on remote machines
which don't even have a screen attached to them, and the users will not like
it if they are forced to install the X11 libraries (although they probably
will).  Especially because the dedicated server is so small, it is unwanted to
demand such enourmous chunks of ballast to be installed with it.

Thanks,
Bas

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