On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 05:31:26PM +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 08:59 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm planning on updating vegastrike to the new 0.5.0 upstream release for F-10
> and maybe later F-9 / F-8 too, but vegastrike has been dead for a while and now
> makes some huge changes, so better to keep the old trusted version for F-8 /
> F-9 for a while.
>
> However the 0.5.0 datafiles are 500 Mb b2zipped! So is this a problem?
That depends. Are you wanting it installed on the Live CD? 8-]
For Live CD it is obviously out of the question, it wouldn't even fit
there, but even in the Everything trees 500MB of data for a game is IMHO too
much. Remember many people mirror the whole Everything tree to do local
installs etc.
Jakub