From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 16:27:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 885) id A26B337B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 16:27:15 -0700 From: Eric Melville To: Mark Murray Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org> References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org>; from mark@grondar.za on Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100 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 > The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are > carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. > > Yes folks, its that time of the year. > > I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install > bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". > > Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little > water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or agreement > as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to import > emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 > books. I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed like a good solution for sccs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message