mednafen provides several emulators but theres no alternatives system like fceu emulator or similar. The emulator "Mednafen" and the version recently uploaded on experimental provides a wide variety of emulations, but this is unknown to users. Packages like fceu provides THROUGH system "update-alternatives" links for emulted provides "nes" and the manpage respetively, but no Mednafen. Mednafen its more flexible and highly configurable, in addition to being well documented, and the file configuration are plain editable, too many advantages, but does not provide links to the provides emulated ystems by alternatives system. In this email I add scripts prerm and postinst necessary to help improve this package in debian, so as venenux will does and massenkoh. Son then can added to control the field "Provides : nes-emulator , gg-emulator , sgg-emulator , sms-emulator , pce-emulator , gba-emulator , gbc-emulator , lynx-emulator , ngp-emulator , ngc-emulator , wsc-emulator , lnx-emulator" or sometingh like! I hope this help improve pakage , i like a link to more emulated system by thi emulator, also improve description please! ¬_¬u The scripts out this : change acordaly to debian please! Configurando mednafen (0.8.D.3-1vnzsquezze1) ... Provides all 8bit and 16 bit emulators supported on debian detected real linux by McKAY emu update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/nes (nes) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/gba (gba) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/sms (sms) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/pce (pce) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/ngp (ngp) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/sgg (sgg) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/gbc (gbc) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/ngc (ngc) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/wsc (wsc) en modo automático. update-alternatives: utilizando /usr/bin/mednafen para proveer /usr/bin/lnx (lnx) en modo automático. Procesando disparadores para menu ... Presione ENTER para continuar.
Hi, The Debian packages since 0.8.C-1 do provide the nes-emulator virtual package (as used by efp), and the nes alternative. I can see how this would be useful, especially if other related packages were also updated. Note though that virtual packages are intended for use by dependencies (see policy 3.6 and 7.5), so there wouldn't be much point unless emulated games were provided as packages (in a similar fashion to the efp package). Adding all the alternatives would also introduce a fair amount of "namespace polution" in /usr/bin... What exactly is the problem you're trying to solve? (Or problems...) If it's making the package easier to discover, the way to do that is by working on the description. Or do you think it makes things easier to be able to type gba ... rather than mednafen ... etc.? Wouldn't a better solution be to provide handlers for the various MIME types involved (application/x-nes-rom and so on) so that users can simply launch their games from their file manager? Do you have any suggestions? The current descriptions list all the emulated systems, and apart from expanding some of the acronyms (NES and SNES especially) I don't see much to improve - but I'm probably wrong! Thanks for your input, Stephen
--- -- yes, helps other dependences, theres a new frontends like, emuselect (http://sourceforge.net/p/emuselect/) , gelide (http://gelide.sourceforge.net/) that will be easy for upload and póprt to debian, so then yeah, helps men!----- ----- ehhh , well , u 'r right! but .. err .. i take a rest, please wait a moment!------ --- the first describet, depends and launchers for apps like gelide or emuselect, inclusive kemuexec If it's making the package easier to discover, the way to do that is by working on --- type gba for gammers like others, its more easy rather thant type mednafen, if i dont know any of linux, Wouldn't a better solution be to provide handlers for the various MIME oh yeah of course! please, i forget that in the diff! sorry! Thanks you, and please, remenber, gammers make use of system different thant us
there other bugs reported related to this: 618259 618297 (this bad made could?) there are gammer not like u or me, than not know nothing about linux and equivalents emulators, type gba, nes, snes its more easy for thems, also multi-frontends are better to handle by "nes" or "snes" or "sms" launcher aliases rathen thant package specific depends