Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021010014103.GA348@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org> References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org>
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--1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > > The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are > > carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. > >=20 > > Yes folks, its that time of the year. > >=20 > > I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install > > bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". > >=20 > > 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. >=20 > I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed like > a good solution for sccs. Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this is about to change. Kris --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9pNqvWry0BWjoQKURAvKiAJ9t84BqZ18+I/B4PYDbMvv3ewIYaQCg2m/8 dpaZbnOmYjYVVz8x3QepRPw= =8In7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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