FS#51989 - [steam] move out steam-native to the steam-native-runtime package

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Opened by Emil (xexaxo) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 17:02 GMT
Last edited by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 21:20 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Multilib
Status Closed
Assigned To Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

Atm, the steam package ships with steam-native, yet the [meta] package which gets you running steam-native-runtime isn't pulled.

Ideally we'll get the script moved to the latter package, this way things are explicit and just work.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Levente Polyak (anthraxx)
Monday, 28 November 2016, 21:20 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  needs to be in the steam package to soon replace the default invoker
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 17:33 GMT
Its just a temporary solution to have them as optdepends simply to catch bugs from early adopters. the steam-native-runtime package will soonish be switched to a hard dependency anyway.
Comment by Emil (xexaxo) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 18:36 GMT
Please do _not_ force everyone to always use a native runtime. Some of us are developers and we have to use (as much of) the steam runtime as possible.
Regardless of the fun (or less so) experiences it causes.
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 18:37 GMT
you will still be able to do so via 'steam-runtime' when we do the switch, however we will make 'steam' to be default running native runtime.
Comment by Emil (xexaxo) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 19:00 GMT
Amazing, thank you.

Where can I read more on this (or other steam runtime related) discussion(s) ?
I cannot find anything on the publicly accessible mailing lists, so I guess it took place on the private devel. one(s)?
Comment by Levente Polyak (anthraxx) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 19:58 GMT
Of cause, you're welcome :)

The only public statement about this is an explenation to add a bunch of lib32 packages: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-multilib/2016-August/000957.html
Everything else was discussed off-list, sorry. You will fine a more verbose explanation here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51990#comment153141

If you can live with it, i would like to close this ticket as 'steam-native' will the default 'steam' invoker anyway. Therefor this would be nothing else then moving furniture around :P
Comment by Emil (xexaxo) - Monday, 28 November 2016, 20:13 GMT
Ack. Please go ahead (close this ticket).
Thanks again.

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