On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 06:03 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > Yes - replacing large amounts of content that does not change for a > small patch that has no effect on content whatsoever is an incredible > waste of bandwidth, which some people have to pay for on a usage basis. > > There needs to be an exception defined to the rule for such cases, as > splitting the static content from the code is a practice that should be > encouraged, not discouraged. If the content is required for game functionality, but split into a separate tarball (e.g. game music, levels), then I see no reason that a package containing that content would not be permissible under FE Guidelines (assuming that the content is freely distributable without restriction). The "no OGG/MP3" rule was primarily to prevent people from doing something stupid, not to prevent games with static content in separate tarballs to be punished. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
