Ubuntu vs. Debian packages

[Cesare Falco]

Il 14/03/2012 09:22, Miriam Ruiz ha scritto:

> Why can't roms be packaged? I mean, obviously not in Debian or Ubuntu official repositories, but what about private packages? I do that a lot, so I'd expect some people to not want to install roms directly but package them too, even for their private use. I know that's probably not the most general case, but I don't know why it shouldn't be supported.
I see your point, but you are talking about private packages, whereas we 
have to decide about official distro ones. It's difficult to foresee 
everything private packagers can do. :)

On the other hand, we could keep the /usr/share/... entry for the sake 
of Manu's reply concerning automated download:

I think we discussed this already some ago, and IIRC the consensus was
that it should go in a separate mame-extra-download package ( which
could also handle other mame ressources like artwork YMMV )


which is a good idea IMO.

Cheers,
Cesare.