Optional components

Goldberg, Steamless and SLScheevo are not bundled with ASSella. They are downloaded on demand from Cloudflare R2 the first time they are needed.

Goldberg alone was 81 MB of the 98 MB in src/deps/ — 34.8 MB compressed — and only a minority of games need it (those whose Steam build emulates multiplayer). Keeping it out means a new Goldberg release ships without rebuilding the AppImage.

For users

Open Settings → Tools → Optional Components. Each component has one button:

• Download — not installed
• Update — installed, but a newer version is available
• disabled — installed and up to date

Nothing is downloaded until you ask for it, and no action fails because a component is missing: pressing Apply Goldberg on a game, or enabling Apply Goldberg automatically during a download, will simply offer you the download button instead.

Installs are verified against a SHA-256 from components_manifest.json. A corrupt or interrupted download never replaces a working install.

For maintainers

The procedure for updating, packaging and publishing these components lives in cloud/README.md.