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Bug 226145 - games-server/halflife-steam : confusing name and description
Summary: games-server/halflife-steam : confusing name and description
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Games (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Games
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Reported: 2008-06-12 22:20 UTC by Mounir Lamouri (volkmar) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2008-06-13 17:50 UTC (History)
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Description Mounir Lamouri (volkmar) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-06-12 22:20:32 UTC
Package halflife-steam has a confusing name and description.

First of all, for the name, 'steam' should be better as halflife has no direct relation with steam. Steam is a Valve product and it just helps to install games. Half-Life is only one of those games.

The worst confusing thing is the description of the package. It is "client for Valve Software's Steam content delivery program". As halflife-steam package is in games-server and as there is only a linux version of the steam server, I think writing "client" in the description is realy confusion. To have steam client, we must use wine or cedega.
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-06-13 17:50:03 UTC
It's clearly a client for the content delivery program and it's the halflife server delivered via steam.

You're the only one it's confused in the 5 years it's been in portage so we'll keep it the way it is.