From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 20:31:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28BC12E4 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E102B2CDD for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-108-40.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.108.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A67E5254AE; Mon, 12 May 2014 22:31:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s4CKVaXK004585; Mon, 12 May 2014 22:31:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:31:36 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Fbsd8 Subject: Re: games Message-Id: <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:31:39 -0000 On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:05:49 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > I remember back in 6.x a lot of talk about killing every thing about > games. Todays version of the handbook has no mention of games, but the > bsdinstall installer has option to install games and there is a ports > collection category called games. bsdconfig has no games installer. > > So what is the general status of games? Maybe they have been moved to a port now (just like the former documentation)? What's in /usr/games? I don't have access to a v10 system at the moment, but my home system at v8 does have them. > Is the handbook correct and bsdinstall and the ports collection just > never got cleaned up or does the handbook need a chapter on games? Do you refer to the games in /usr/games, or would you wish for more information about gaming on FreeBSD in general? (I'm using my home desktop for gaming too, and I got even the strangest games working here.) > Do you really think stage is going to be added to those game ports? > Or is the underlining intention of killing all ports that are not staged > by june 30 the method being used to get rid of all the game ports? That would be sad. :-( On the v10 system I installed few months ago, I did even install OpenArena, but as there was no precompiled pacakge, it required a "make install", plus that it didn't build with Clang (instead required gcc). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...