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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? 
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Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 19:02:04 -0800
From: Ben Cottrell <benco@pendor.McKusick.COM>
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In message <4964.878612091@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
> And since when was rot13 a "game", anyway?  A pretty boring game, if
> you ask me :)

Actually, that was a large portion of my point :-) There are many things in
/usr/games that are not games, they are actually useful utilities. Nuking
the entire directory would not only eliminate fluff, it would also take out
a number of mathematical and text-processing utilities with it.

I would get behind a proposal to eliminate all the real "games" while leaving
the rest, but I strongly oppose deleting the whole directory.

	~Ben