From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 14:55:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10714 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA10709 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA11806; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:55:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:55:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and > probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong > need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop > distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, > arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be > moved). Agreed, I hate having to install /usr/src/games just to install fortune, a port would be much more pleasant, and easier to track that it was done, thanks to /var/db/pkg