Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:11:23 +0200 (CEST) From: "Ganael LAPLANCHE" <ganael.laplanche@martymac.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: About games/flightgear-aircrafts Message-ID: <20110922071857.M71817@martymac.org>
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Hi list, As you may know, games/flightgear-aircrafts is *HUGE*, way too big to be useable and buildable correctly, and, as a maintainer, a real pain to update. Today, if you just need one airplane from flightgear-aircrafts, you would have to download 350+ airplanes and more than 2 GB of data, which makes no sense at all. We have to get rid of that. I am thinking of two options : 1) providing only a subset of available airplanes (i.e. *not* every single airplane available on the FTP servers). This would be nice, but requires to set up a list of the best planes to include (top 30 best planes ?), and that list may not be the one every single user would have established. 2) removing the port and consider users have to install additional planes *manually*. After all, those airplanes are only addons ; limiting the ports to flightgear + flightgear-data, which already ship with several airplanes, does not seem crazy to me. A third option would have been to provide the full list of available airplanes but only select a few of them through OPTIONS, but I'd like to avoid going this way : this will not simplify the port at all, it will only make it harder to maintain as the OPTIONS list will be huge, and (maybe ?) pointless for the end-user. Flightgear users, I would go for option 2), but what do *you* think ? Best regards, -- Ganael LAPLANCHE <ganael.laplanche@martymac.org> http://www.martymac.org | http://contribs.martymac.org FreeBSD: martymac <martymac@FreeBSD.org>, http://www.FreeBSD.org
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