Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:20:07 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <20140513152007.21ccdb5b@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <53720F06.1070404@a1poweruser.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com> <20140513125543.3cd46f57@gumby.homeunix.com> <53720F06.1070404@a1poweruser.com>
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On Tue, 13 May 2014 08:24:38 -0400
Fbsd8 wrote:
> RW wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 May 2014 00:24:23 +0200
>
> "/usr/games/random is used by the ports system for
> RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES"
>
> This is not totally true. random may be used by the ports system, but
> not what is in /usr/games.
$ grep RANDOM_CMD /usr/ports/Mk/*
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:RANDOM_CMD?= /usr/games/random
/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:_RANDOMIZE_SITES= " |${RANDOM_CMD}
${RANDOM_ARGS}"
> I have been removing /usr/games directory since release 4.0 and never
> have had any problems.
What you don't have you don't miss.
I didn't say it's essential, but I find RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES and
random(6) to be useful.
I wouldn't recommend setting RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITES unconditionally,
but I find it useful in scripts to refetch with it set after a checksum
has failed.
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