[Maakuth]

In Linux game packaging, this issue is often resolved by having a separate package for game data. This is also a neat workaround for licensing differences. For example Quake 3 is now open source, but the game data is still under commercial license. Distributions now offer just the game binaries built from the source and you have to buy the data yourself.

[throwaway64]

The problem with this is that with many steam games (such as TF2) the game data itself updates constantly aswell.