From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 3 17:31:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA22017 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:31:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA22012 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 17:31:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id SAA24873 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:31:46 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA07886 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:37:25 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:37:25 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: 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). I would miss /usr/games/rot13; after all, it is all I get for encyryption in the base install. Don't tell me pathetic US laws will remove this one too. But seriously, not having rot13 (and fortune) in the base system would be bad IMHO. primes, random, number are also good shell script utils, but they are obscure enough to be left out of the base.