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List:       opensuse-buildservice
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-buildservice] who removed steam from games: and why?
From:       Matt Williams <matt () milliams ! com>
Date:       2013-01-14 14:15:54
Message-ID: CAF3HMhk7ikqxoPstV0yQLCpGXyTOWaYr3je8B68L+qpT5uRuuA () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 14 January 2013 13:21, Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> wrote:
> Mathias Homann wrote:
>> why was steam removed from games?
>
> hijacking the thread a bit... Has anyone actually looked at the
> package from a technical point of view? Even if we got permissions
> to distribute this I'd still consider it very ugly and hardly
> acceptable.
> /usr/bin/steam is just a shell script that extracts the tarball that
> contains the actual binary to your home and then runs the binary
> from there.

This thread (http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/846939854324291029/)
could be of interest to this technical discussion.

Also from the legal point of view, there was an article on Phoronix
about it http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIyOTI

Matt
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