Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 13:24:12 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r278616 - in head: . contrib/netbsd-tests/games etc etc/mtree etc/root games games/caesar games/fortune/datfiles release/scripts share/man/man4 share/man/man6 share/man/man7 share/mk sh... Message-ID: <20150212102412.GA67478@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <201502120535.t1C5Z0el061979@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201502120535.t1C5Z0el061979@svn.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 05:35:00AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > Author: cperciva > Date: Thu Feb 12 05:35:00 2015 > New Revision: 278616 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278616 > > Log: > Step 1 of eliminating the "games" distribution: Move binaries to /usr/bin; > update paths; and include everything in the "base" distribution. > > The "games" distribution being optional made sense when there were more > games and we had small disks; but the "games-like" games were moved into > the ports tree a dozen years ago and the remaining "utility-like" games > occupy less than 0.001% of my laptop's small hard drive. Meanwhile every > new user is confronted by the question "do you want games installed" when > they they try to install FreeBSD. > > The next steps will be: > > 2. Removing punch card (bcd, ppt), phase-of-moon (pom), clock (grdc), and > caesar cipher (caesar, rot13) utilities. I intend to keep fortune, factor, > morse, number, primes, and random, since there is evidence that those are > still being used. Please, keep pom.
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