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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Markus,

Markus Koschany wrote:
> > 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. :)

Hehe.

> 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.

You've got some point. The only difference I see is that minesweeper
has become famous through one particular non-free implementation and
most of the implementation are quite close to the original. So I'd
think that way more people will know what they get from a minesweepers
meta package than a more generic sounding shoot them up meta package.

But then again, this view may be heavily influenced by how I grew up
(DOS and Windows 2/3/95, not C64, not Amiga, not Atari).

> > 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.

Good point! That and the one transitional package make the list even smaller:

  ace-of-penguins - penguin-themed solitaire games
  freesweep - text-based minesweeper
  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

> 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.

Oh, didn't notice that all those (except the KDE and GNOME one) are
already in there, too. For some reason I didn't expect them to count
as puzzle. While https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle sounds more like
Minesweeper isn't a puzzle,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) describes it as
"single-player puzzle video game". So I should may broaden my idea of
what can be a puzzle. :-)

So, basically, I'd be happy if that meta package would be added, but I
won't be sad if not. I may make my own local meta package in the
latter case. :-)

		Regards, Axel
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