From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 12 21:03:56 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 8CCC9E81 for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 21:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay.mailchannels.net (si-002-i152.relay.mailchannels.net [108.178.49.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB91204C for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 21:03:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|107.201.34.133 Received: from mail-24.name-services.com (unknown [10.237.3.9]) by relay.mailchannels.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 80A3A60EF8; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:47:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender-Id: _forwarded-from|107.201.34.133 Received: from mail-24.name-services.com (mail-24.name-services.com [10.235.16.137]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA) by 0.0.0.0:2500 (trex/5.1.2); Mon, 12 May 2014 20:47:49 GMT X-MC-Relay: Forwarding X-MailChannels-SenderId: _forwarded-from%7C107.201.34.133 X-MailChannels-Auth-Id: demandmedia Received: from [10.0.10.1] (107-201-34-133.lightspeed.bcvloh.sbcglobal.net [107.201.34.133]) by mail-24.name-services.com with SMTP; Mon, 12 May 2014 13:47:43 -0700 Message-ID: <5371336F.2080000@a1poweruser.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:47:43 -0400 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon Subject: Re: games References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 21:03:56 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > 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). > > > My 10.0 host /usr/games directory is empty. I did not select games to be installed during the bsdinstall install.