Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971105103205.27987F-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and > probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong > need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop > distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, > arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be > moved). Maybe they aren't any fun to the "old guard", but newbies often find them entertaining. This can be anyone form a child to a spouse. My wife liked playing hangman for a while. What can I say? ;-) The games is already a separate distribution bundle, so other than fixing the legal issues as the arise, I'd like to see them stay in the base source tree. It's kind of a heritage/tradition thing to me. Besides, what happens to section 6 of the manual if you ditch the games? Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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