On 03/23/2010 03:25 PM, Hamish Wilson wrote:
Dear Fedora Gaming Special Interest Group,
I salute your efforts to make Fedora one of the best Linux systems for
gaming. I have had an idea to make your support even better: package the
Loki Compatibility Libraries. Granted this would only help users in
running commercial games, such as the Loki Software and Hyperion game
ports, but the libraries themselves are not proprietary and are simply
older versions of free libraries that are needed by these ports to run
repackaged. Case in point, on SuperGamer it appears to include these
libraries by default. The Loki port of Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns runs
beautifully out of the box, as does Hyperion's port of SiN. I have been
fighting to get these to work on Fedora with very little success. I am
not quite sure how SuperGamer packages them, but I would love to be able
to type into my root terminal, say, "yum install loki-compat-libs" and
suddenly have these games work. I would be very happy if someone looks
into this.
Wow. I understand the motivation here, but do we really want to keep
dragging these ancient libraries around for proprietary games? This is a
security nightmare just waiting to happen, not to mention encouraging
other code projects to simply depend on loki-compat-libs rather than
fixing their code to work with the modern versions of these libraries.
I'd much rather lobby the vendors for these games to open source their
codebases so that we could fix them up and include them properly.
~spot