From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 4 13:26:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09239 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09234 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 13:26:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d8.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.8]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA10619; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:23:49 +1100 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA03066; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:20:59 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199711042120.IAA03066@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 08:20:58 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? To: benco@pendor.McKusick.COM cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811040302.TAA01991@pendor.McKusick.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 3 Nov, Ben Cottrell wrote: > 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. I'm in favour of nuking games. I like fortune, but haven't run it since I started to use X (where do you put a logout message, hmmmm?). I don't understand the passion for rot13 everyone has been displaying. There are so many (commercial) Unix systems in my past that have not had it at all that the following script has been in my personal bin since July 1989: tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' (look ma, no #!/bin/sh, even) I've probably used random in a few scripts over the years, but it would be easy to make random a wrapper for jot, now that that's in /usr/bin. I can't see anything else there that's worth keeping. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson