From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 18:41: 6 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 1D9DF37B401; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:05 -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 5C4A343E65; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E8ED666C7B; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Eric Melville Cc: Mark Murray , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src/games bikeshed time. Message-ID: <20021010014103.GA348@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org> 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 --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