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[Request] `nquake` + `ezquake` #2097

Open yum13241 opened 1 year ago

yum13241 commented 1 year ago

Link to the package(s) in the AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nquake

Utility this package has for you

It sets up QuakeWorld for you (mostly) so all the hard work is done.

Do you consider the package(s) to be useful for every Chaotic-AUR user?

No, but for a great amount.

Do you consider the package to be useful for feature testing/preview?

Have you tested if the package builds in a clean chroot?

Does the package's license allow redistributing it?

YES!

Have you searched the issues to ensure this request is unique?

Have you read the README to ensure this package is not banned?

More information

You'll also need to build ezquake too.

Technetium1 commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately it's impossible for us to add this, since the dependency ezquake requires retail .pak files that we can't get, and even if we could, we wouldn't be able to redistribute them...

yum13241 commented 1 year ago

AFAIK you can just use pak0.pak and tell users to supply pak1.pak, since pak0.pak is shareware. The windows installer does precisely that. AFAIK distributing shareware is encouraged by shareware devs,

Technetium1 commented 1 year ago

I flagged ezquake out of date, let's see what happens when there's a new version ready...

yum13241 commented 1 year ago

You might want to tell the upstream devs about this problem. The problem being you apparently can't distribute the shareware version, but ezquake requires the retail pak files.

Pro tip: try compiling with GCC 9 if the update doesn't fix the compilation. ezquake-git never had this issue.

You can find pak0.pak here @ https://github.com/rictorres/quake-ktx-server/blob/master/id1/pak0.pak. pak0 is shareware. pak1 is illegal to distribute.

dr460nf1r3 commented 1 year ago

How big are those files?

Technetium1 commented 1 year ago

How big are those files?

17.4 MB for pak0.pak

yum13241 commented 1 year ago

and pak1.pak's size doesn't matter since chaotic can't distribute them anyway. The mission packs have pak0, pak1, and pak2, which are illegal to distribute anyway. I linked to the one from the base game.

yum13241 commented 1 year ago

nquake has been updated this year.