Re: Split games/minetest into main, server and data subpackages

On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:07:25AM +0200, Leonid Bobrov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:02:19AM +0300, Kirill Bychkov wrote:
> > Hi!
> > What is the reason to split 15 MiB package and complicate the port?
> > Some games using such a split to save space on mirrors, but they
> > have more than 100 MiB of data.
> >
>
> Hi!
>
> This was suggested by Landry Breuil to run the server without having
> the client installed.
>
> Also I see an opportunity here because you don't have to have X.org
> installed to run the server.
>
> Alternatively we can split it in flavors like FreeBSD did that, this
> will help people which prefer to compile packages themselves, but this
> is more complicated, but it'll allow people to compile server only.

We actually dropped the distinction USE_X11 a few years ago.

These days, we consider you install a more of less full system including
X libraries for ports.

I'm also not too fond of the extra complexity for such a small package.