From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 09:03:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB8B106564A for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA268FC13 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iadk27 with SMTP id k27so4209265iad.13 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:03:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=zuyMokERbwcS00PDO+Zd5SCin9ui/BzaVv1lsItcIXE=; b=AovRwJAlczXuQ/s7U00I9w0a8S8ylgUaScPze1L8lqD5bteefzo6odq3pGQtAOIl9J 4BFy99HgRV2vUci6C1S0w0pQDoh5+TJdMlfPdedQjD4h5UW7fJ9nRG5p3uibxs16k2vH IwbIiFx5Wvj8xxrfW8nY5IEeaqMCC+l0li4DI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.69.80 with SMTP id y16mr2933474ibi.34.1316682219371; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:03:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.35.194 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.35.194 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:03:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110922071857.M71817@martymac.org> References: <20110922071857.M71817@martymac.org> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:03:38 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Ganael LAPLANCHE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About games/flightgear-aircrafts X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:03:41 -0000 On 22 Sep 2011 09:11, "Ganael LAPLANCHE" wrote: > > 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 ? > 4) add-on ports? Chris