From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 1 7:44:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.intercom.com (mail.intercom.com [206.98.165.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F7D614F12 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jason@intercom.com) Received: from mail.intercom.com (mail.intercom.com [206.98.165.10]) by mail.intercom.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA06701; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:43:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 10:43:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason J. Horton" To: Rod Taylor Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Games In-Reply-To: <370308C1.9B908465@rcc.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, 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 ;) As far as I am concerned, things like fortune, pom, pig and banner have been included with BSD-ish systems for ages... Tradition... I wouldn't feel the same if I didn't get my fortune every login. also, don't you have the option to not have the games? -Jason J. Horton Senior Network & Systems Engineer Intercom Online Inc. 212.378.2202 | http://www.intercom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message