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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 01:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games Makefile src/games/wargames Makefile wargames.6 wargames.c 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210090115260.37238-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210090718.g997Ibhb005734@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Mark Murray wrote:

> > We had a long discussion about this a few years ago.  It was decided to
> > leave games(6) in the base system.
> 
> The most recent outcome was NOT that. (That may have been your position,
> and the bikeshedding over fortune(6) seriously tainted the rest of the
> discussion. The outcome was that the discussion ended in disarray with
> no decision made and the participants arguing about stupid details like
> not removing their favourite game.

Where was the most recent discussion? on IRC?
I never saw any recent discussion of removing them..



> 
> M
> >                                  What will be removed next?  Either
> > stick to the outcome from the disucssion last time; or do it right and
> > make a 44bsd-games port and then remove all the games not used in 'make
> > world'.  A unilateral decission from the one that "lost" the "remove
> > games from /usr/src src" fight doesn't seem right.
> 
> My take on  this is to leave behind the "games" that have information/
> utility value (primes, morse, pom, etc). I want to make a port out of
> all the games that depend on dm(6).
> 
> The stale joke that is wargames must _stay_ dead.
> 
> M
> -- 
> o       Mark Murray
> \_
> O.\_    Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn
> 


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