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I don't see why Steam couldn't be distributed as a .deb package (and put in the repos), much as is existing proprietary software. I mean it probably isn't goin
by antihero 15y ago
I don't see why Steam couldn't be distributed as a .deb package (and put in the repos), much as is existing proprietary software.
I mean it probably isn't going to happen for the games, but Steam is pretty decent at managing them anyway.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI'd actually rather keep apt-get out of my games installation process. Obviously it would make sense for steam to call apt-get etc to install core libraries required etc. I'd rather not have some sort of dependency jungle whereby I have my system dependencies overwritten by some steam specific version. The reason apt-get scares me for games is that it can sometimes get very carried away and start doing things like installing mailservers + alternative Windows managers + different java versions when I try and install a relatively small program.
- antihero 15y agoAye, and I wouldn't expect games companies to have the first clue about decent linux packaging. I say keep the games installed in Steam, but Steam installed with the package manager.
- jrabone 15y agoapt-get --no-install-recommends is quite helpful in that respect, as is aptitude why | why-not if you have aptitude installed.