[pkg-fgfs-crew] Bug#618890:

Chris cbaines8 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 17:42:23 UTC 2011


Hi Tomek,

That dependency model was chosen as its not required to download the
base aircraft or the base model set to use FlightGear.

To run FlightGear you need a plane, the base aircraft package only
includes a fraction of the aircraft available for FlightGear, the others
are available to download at the FlightGear website and these will allow
you to run FlightGear. You also don’t need the scenery or models to run
FlightGear however as you have found out you run in to problems if you
omit either.

If you made these packages dependencies, it would stop users such as
myself for installing the FlightGear binary package, but using my own
scenery and aircraft. If using terrasync, the models package needs
removing and replacing with the models released by upstream as some of
the latest models cant be found in the package released by Debian. 

At the moment Debian does not handle the amount of data produced by the
FlightGear project well, this is because the tools are just not there
yet.

I still feel this is the best dependency solution.

Chris








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