From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 14 2:57:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24B314CA4 for <current@freebsd.org>; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 02:57:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11xpe3-000LbO-00; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:57:27 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA61654; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:57:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <385622A5.4FF281D6@scc.nl> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:57:41 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world broken building fortunes References: <19991213134203.117801CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > I wonder if we should move fortune to usr.bin? It's hardly a game and I'm > way beyond tired of it being left out of standard paths... > (ie: "/bin:/usr/bin[:/usr/local/bin]") After letting this go through my head for a day (it probably isn't important anymore :-), I think it's better to add /usr/games to the standard search path. Fortune is not a tool you use for anything other than fun and does not really belong in a "serious" directory as /usr/bin. On the other hand it's too frequently used to not have it somewhere in a search path. Also, having games as part of FreeBSD without a proper search path to them is also a bit odd. Anyway, my 2c... -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message