On 05/11/2010 01:14 AM, James Antill wrote: > Thankfully all the giant flamewars and new policies didn't make anyone > think twice about the users, as we already have 140 updates with a > combined size of _over_ 750MB on x86_64, biggest 5 are: > > 6.2M wesnoth-1.8.1-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 12M hanazono-fonts-20100222-2.fc13.noarch.rpm > 48M xmoto-0.5.3-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm > 260M wesnoth-data-1.8.1-1.fc13.noarch.rpm > 318M openarena-0.8.5-1.fc13.noarch.rpm > > ...the last being particularly "nice", in that the package hasn't been > updated for almost a year but now we get 2 300MB+ presents at once. > Welcome to the new Fedora updates, much like the old Fedora updates. > Hey, at least Kevin should be happy. > > Speaking as the wesnoth and xmoto maintainer, I've, in the past, asked for wesnoth releases of this nature to be tagged into final to same mirror space, but, again, it's not in the default spin, and we now have deltarpms (and a huge thank to to all responsible there), so I really don't think it's that big of an issue. If someone wants to request this, or thinks I should do so, pipe up now, as the hour of relevance draws near. Besides, I doubt they'd do it anyway, after reading Jesse's Release Candidate email. And probably with good reason. All of that said, I'll keep doing game updates. Gamers want them, as has already been said. -J -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
