From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 15:26:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E329616A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B29443D2F for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 27117 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2005 15:26:01 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Apr 2005 15:26:01 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 343D42F; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:26:00 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050428032910.62902.qmail@web54009.mail.yahoo.com> <20050428133031.GA90044@keyslapper.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Apr 2005 11:25:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20050428133031.GA90044@keyslapper.net> Message-ID: <44ekcuncs8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: How to get rid of games ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:26:07 -0000 Louis LeBlanc writes: > I find it highly improbable that the kernel would suddenly bonk if it > can't amuse itself with a game or two while you're not looking, but > these aren't really the kind of games that will keep people wasting > time. On top of that, they take up less than 4M of disk space, which > might be considered less than negligible. > > Finally, keep in mind that fortune is used for some logins to present > FreeBSD tips and hints. And even after some 5 years using FreeBSD, I > find these tips helpful from time to time. The data for the fortunes seems to be most of the space taken up by the "games" distribution. We should also mention for the original poster's benefit that in 5.x, all of the actual games have been removed from the base system, but fortune(6), primes(6), random(6), and so on are still there (and still referred to as "games", even though they really aren't).