Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:55:43 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <20140513125543.3cd46f57@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 13 May 2014 00:24:23 +0200 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. /usr/games/random is used by the ports system for RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES There aren't really any actual games as such left. It's fortune, which provides admin tips on login, and a handful of small utilities - which have presumably been left because they may be in use in shell scripts, things like prime, factor, rot13, random etc. I find random(6) to be particularly useful, especially in the form: "random -f -", which randomizes the order of lines in a pipeline.
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