Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 09:17:55 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Rolf Nielsen <rmg1970swe@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <5371D533.9090301@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com>
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On 12/05/2014 23:24, Rolf Nielsen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2014-05-12 22:05, 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? Is the handbook correct and >> bsdinstall and the ports collection just never got cleaned up or >> does the handbook need a chapter on games? > > I'm not sure about the games that come (or used to come) as (an > optional) part of the system, because I have WITHOUT_GAMES=yes in my > /etc/src.conf. However, the fact that that setting causes no errors or > warnings and that it's still documented in the src.conf(5) man page, > suggests that they're still there, at least when building from source. I have two 10.0-R boxes, one with and one without WITHOUT_GAMES in /etc/src.conf. The one that excludes them has an empty /usr/games. The one that doesn't has fileserver:1# ls /usr/games/ bcd factor grdc number ppt random strfile caesar fortune morse pom primes rot13 unstr Of those factor and primes save firing up something a lot heavier once in a blue moon, the rest I never touch. /usr/games isn't exactly a major waste of space: fileserver:1# du -sh /usr/games/ 288K /usr/games/ but I doubt whether many would miss it if it went away. /usr/ports/games is different, and I doubt whether it will vanish, but you're better off asking the porting team about their intentions.
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