From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 31 19:35:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA1714BD8 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id MAA22764; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:35:27 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3702E799.FFBEC314@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 12:27:21 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rod Taylor Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Games References: <370308C1.9B908465@rcc.on.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rod Taylor wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD > source tree? > > For a group of people that was so worried about including dhcp because > it's extra code, don't you think it's time to make those games into > ports only? > > I say this under the assumption that they're not required for FreeBSD to > function. (Not like IE for windows ;) Well, first of all, .profile, .cshrc and signature scripts are broken in the absense of fortune. Aside from that, because that's the BSD heritage. It was once suggested taking them out if they could be made into ports. But, then, the first issue came up. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message