Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 16:47:43 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <5371336F.2080000@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:05:49 -0400, 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? > > Maybe they have been moved to a port now (just like the > former documentation)? What's in /usr/games? I don't have > access to a v10 system at the moment, but my home system > at v8 does have them. > > > >> Is the handbook correct and bsdinstall and the ports collection just >> never got cleaned up or does the handbook need a chapter on games? > > Do you refer to the games in /usr/games, or would you wish > for more information about gaming on FreeBSD in general? > (I'm using my home desktop for gaming too, and I got even > the strangest games working here.) > > > >> Do you really think stage is going to be added to those game ports? >> Or is the underlining intention of killing all ports that are not staged >> by june 30 the method being used to get rid of all the game ports? > > That would be sad. :-( > > On the v10 system I installed few months ago, I did even install > OpenArena, but as there was no precompiled pacakge, it required > a "make install", plus that it didn't build with Clang (instead > required gcc). > > > My 10.0 host /usr/games directory is empty. I did not select games to be installed during the bsdinstall install.
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