From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 15 14:36:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C598B37B491; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1FMaHW11860; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:36:17 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102152236.f1FMaHW11860@harmony.village.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:54:37 PST." <20010215135437.A3838@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20010215135437.A3838@dragon.nuxi.com> <200102151834.f1FIXv941778@gratis.grondar.za> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:36:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010215135437.A3838@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:34:33PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote: : > I have coarsely cateogorised the games in src/games into broad : > groups - adventure/strategy, board/card, novelty, quiz, arcade and : > utility. : ... : > I'd like to turn each category into a port (ports/games/bsd-adventure : > for example), with the exception of "utility"). Those, I'd like : > to keep where they are. : : : I fully support this idea. Anything else in the base system that was so : old and little used, would have been pushed to ports a long time ago. Agreed. The make buildworld stuff is slowed down by a whole minute :-) Seriously, except for fortune there's nothing in /usr/games that gets used enough to warrant its inclusion in the base system, except for sentimental reasons. Hey, what's this uucp stuff? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message