Re: [RFS] minigalaxy - simple GOG client

Stephan Lachnit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.games
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> Another question that might give something closer to the right answer
> is: if we imagine the non-main software that it downloads/loads/uses
> existed in main, contrib or non-free (whichever was appropriate),
> would the manager/downloader have a Depends or Recommends on it, or
> something weaker?

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

> In the case of lgogdownloader and minigalaxy, I suspect the answer
> would be no, because they don't require any particular game in order to
> do what they do. What they do is "download/manage games from GOG",
> and they can do that whether or not you have any particular game installed:
> the same reasoning as Firefox not needing a dependency on any packages that
> contain HTML.
>
> The hypothetical packaged games might want a Recommends on minigalaxy
> if it has functionality analogous to Steam, like tracking achievements
> and managing saved games. (That's probably more like a Suggests, though.)

Yeah that isn't the case here. Will change it to main then.

Regards,
Stephan
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