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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View PostBTW, the Humble Bundle was fantastic, and I will purchase this one too, based on the strength of the last one alone.
Aquaria, World of Goo and Penumbra: Overture were brilliant, and Gish and Lugaru were fun to take for a ride.
This is a great way to support Linux gaming.
I hope they put Osmos in
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Originally posted by miles View PostAgreed 100%, and that's coming from a Ubuntu user. I don't mind asking if a .deb (not an Ubuntu .deb, a .deb, since I prefer it works for Debian first and then for Ubuntu, not the other way arount) is possible and offering advice if necessary, but I always feel like puking when some random kiddie make an absolute demand for Ubuntu packages as if it's the only distribution in the universe. Those morons should remember that people that build the Ubuntu packages they use everyday are also Debian developers and would be pretty upset seeing their users trying to stab them like that.
.debs and .rpms only offer one thing...being tied into the packaging system so you can uninstall the stuff from that tool. If you're using one of the "good" installers out there, you have uninstall support, you have proper menu insertion support, that sort of thing. Unless you're talking about dependencies that don't drift...ever...unless you're packaged as part of the distribution, it's more a minefield than you'd think- and then you're resorting to doing cross-compiles of things, pinning to libc versions, etc. and providing key binaries including the .so's you need that may/may not be there.
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Originally posted by ethana2 View PostBesides that, if someone can't make a .deb, I don't trust whatever script they do write. Invariably they don't handle dependencies, they don't handle menu entries correctly, all kinds of unpolished crap like that which I won't put up with.
The reality is that each of your arguments there is null. Why?
.debs don't magically handle dependencies unless you're building it to the SPECIFIC distribution version you're installing to. Seriously. With some things there's a version-to-version variance (Arch decided to go to libpng 1.4 a while back... Busted Caster all to hell on that platform. If the same transpires with a .deb based distribution, I'd have to provide .debs for at least two differing variations there). If I fixed it so you didn't need to worry about that (handling the dependencies myself, by the way...) then .debs are little different than the Mojosetup .bin file I currently provide- the only thing is "convenience" which is a personal preference thing.
If you use BitRock, Mojosetup, and a few others, the menus are handled right as well.
And this doesn't get into the discussion about if I'm doing .debs, then I've got to do .rpms, Conary packages, etc.
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BTW, the Humble Bundle was fantastic, and I will purchase this one too, based on the strength of the last one alone.
Aquaria, World of Goo and Penumbra: Overture were brilliant, and Gish and Lugaru were fun to take for a ride.
This is a great way to support Linux gaming.
I hope they put Osmos in
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Packaging is the job of the distributions, not upstream developers. Ideally, the upstream devs would contact the distribution and have them prepare a .deb, .rpm, ebuild a .tgz which runs on their distribution. This is how open source programs do it, after all.
Gentoo provides packages for the Humble Bundle.
If your distro does not provide it, then you can make your .deb yourself.
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Originally posted by MaxToTheMax View PostOkay, really? Ubuntu does not and should not get treated as more special than any other distro. Anyone who produces "Ubuntu software, not Linux software" is doing it wrong!
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Originally posted by ethana2 View PostI'm an alpha addict, I reinstall my OS very frequently. I expect to be able to configure everything the way I like it with one "sudo apt-get install bla bla bla bla bla bla" and maybe a dpkg command on a directory.
Regarding your worries about upstream script installs, it's trivial even for a novice to check if a script is sane. Less so for a package, and if you believe making a package is any proof of competence, you obviously don't have any clue what you're talking about.
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Originally posted by ethana2 View PostI bought the first one but the only one that's a .deb is world of goo. If Steam comes to Ubuntu I might buy another one, but otherwise I want it in the Ubuntu Software Center or at the very least, .deb packages for every piece of software in the bundle.
It doesn't work as well for proprietary software, but it's still feasible. Adobe doesn't develop the Ubuntu flash package, it's Ubuntu's job.
While it's always nice to find a package for your distribution on upstream site, demanding (not just suggesting or wishing) that developers package their own software for your distribution is wrong and goes against that agreement.
Not only that, but most of the games in the Humble Indie Bundle have open sourced their code, so nothing prevents a distribution to package at least the program, and offer to prepair the whole package (program + proprietary data) so upstream can offer it on their site. The games in the HIB are doing far better than a proprietary game offering binary Ubuntu packages, since the latter don't let you fix security issues, and only offer you the appearance of good service.
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