Bug#1020496: games-finest: Please add a selection of minetest mods

[Markus Koschany]

Control: reassign -1 minetest
Control: retitle -1 minetest: please install a selection of minetest mods

Hi,

Am Donnerstag, dem 22.09.2022 um 10:48 +0200 schrieb Elena ``of Valhalla'':
> Package: games-finest
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the metapackage installs just the bare the package minetest with the
> bare game; for the best enjoyment however a selection of mods is
> required: could you please add them to the metapackage?

Indeed this is intentional. All meta packages depend only on the main game. If
there are multiple options (different GUIs or flavors) then only one is chosen.
Mods and addons are optional, some people find them useful and others prefer
different ones. It would be impossible to satisfy every user request.

> alternatively, the minetest source package could build a metapackage
> like “minetest-mods-finest”, and that could be installed by
> games-finest.

That could be an option for minetest. If those mods are really required to
enjoy the game then minetest should simply add them to Recommends. If they are
nice to have then adding them to Suggests would also make sense. In any case
games-finest is the wrong place to discuss this topic. This issue should be
solved by minetest and games-finest would automatically pick up the changes.

> As for the selection of which mods to include, I defer to the choice of
> the maintainer (I see as a start that minetest Suggests
> minetest-mod-moreblocks, minetest-mod-moreores, minetest-mod-pipeworks,
> minetest-server, minetestmapper; personally I tend to add a few more)

I leave the decision to someone else because I don't regularly play the game 
anymore.

Cheers,

Markus

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