>>> Reply on 20-10-2006 13:50:06 <<<> >>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:47 PM, in message
> <s5377416.039@mail.TMF-Group.com>,
> "Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@TMF-Group.com> wrote:
> > Dear Holger, dear all
> >
> > As we already talked together, we had the Idea to move the game
> UFO:AI
> > to the Games:Strategy:Turn Based directory, where it would perfectly
> > fit.
> >
> > For this I have several questions, especially related to the ufoai-
> data
> > package:
> >
> > - Can there be a separate repository only for ufoai- data, to avoid
> it
> > to be built for all platforms (like 10.1, 10.0, SLED and so on)? In
> this
> > special Repo of course, nothing else would have to be built. The
> problem
> > with UFO:AI is the excessive amount of data files being pushed to the
> > client (160MB!) that should not be duplicated to multiple repos if
> > possible (see also discussion in the buildservice- mailinglist about
> > this)? Maybe something like games:strategy:turnbased:uniform data
> > packages
> >
>
> Not sure if this can be done. Maybe a single project building
> ufo:ai-data stuff only (for one distribution) could
> provide the noarch package to every distribution that is subscribed for
> that project.
>
> However, I don't like it, as it's not really convenient for the users,
> they have to subscribe to two channels.
>
> Holger
>

But then, it's the only way up to now to avoid the need to replicate the DATA File to all 5 Platforms, that are currently configured in Games:strategy:turn-based. If I link the package just in like this, it will create DATA Files of 800MB, which we all agree is way to much.