From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 10: 4:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDA0F37B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3107643E4A; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:04:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A094466C7B; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:04:52 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Tim Robbins Cc: Mark Murray , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021009170452.GA84472@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021009205942.A43333@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9pGGzWry0BWjoQKURArOsAKDu0ZNcCghkDjSBfcrwFER3PswQBACdED/N MbXsmZHVZjnG+2pvKPP4WsQ= =dm91 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message