Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:04:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021009170452.GA84472@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:59:42PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > > What remains? All the games that dm(6) oversees. Things like > > adventure(6), trek(6), battlestar(6) and so on. These are good > > candidates for ports IMO. Folks may want to play them, but there is no > > point in wasting time and space on them _by_default_. In some cases, > > better upgrades are already available in ports (hack --> nethack). I > > would like to make a port out of these and remove them from the base > > distribution. > > I'd like to see these removed only if nobody is willing to maintain them. I think that's an excellent point. These programs should NOT stay in the base system if there is no-one to maintain them (I'm not ruling out moving them to ports on other grounds). Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9pGGzWry0BWjoQKURArOsAKDu0ZNcCghkDjSBfcrwFER3PswQBACdED/N MbXsmZHVZjnG+2pvKPP4WsQ= =dm91 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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