From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 09:08:34 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 8CC5B106564A for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4859A8FC08 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:08:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsd.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.59] helo=ncs.bris.ac.uk) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R6fGP-0001aR-Gm; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:08:19 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncs.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R6fFs-000092-U9; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:07:41 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p8M97epg017815; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:07:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p8M97ei2017814; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:07:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:07:40 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Chris Rees Message-ID: <20110922090740.GA17805@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20110922071857.M71817@martymac.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Ganael LAPLANCHE 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 09:08:34 -0000 On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 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? yes, this seems to be the case with latex, works fine. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423