From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 11:55:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46EA478D for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 11:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com (mail-wi0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D45562E05 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 11:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id hm4so6073838wib.10 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 04:55:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y0CSPL7xCHlTEbCRk7cpwKWsiVO0QjbJSbK+fUEJJl8=; b=MrsXP45SdFhQiMQFTbevoplJ6XphmvvuJfC2cMWEJ0hBbPPPDGPQUkFy6AsTpycdt8 +LYc2uxUCIsbOLf1fndRQnwuHwl2KnzCho/2X2qqbEyB+6mIeK7eFxvIb41yt+AZ3vwz TDEvStJX4+atagFbRFBaawVv5PsoKf8FxMTHtnepnLPaAnIk+t5cErx9jT98IOH9YhiV vB9FFdrE+g4ZbmzD3Hf5LzjWuN7M0OzJeDLvMtHVKUQqr6ULpnKZFivir33dYc0Yw5Wx 1JT0VYb+Lqwo+8GpIAfLNfJH1dWIGIJ3SsyHbM98PQLiWcDR6wDQC6tqXBzSvBWjffZS 4Qrg== X-Received: by 10.180.39.175 with SMTP id q15mr20421857wik.4.1399982147085; Tue, 13 May 2014 04:55:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com ([94.195.197.191]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cw2sm21939126wjb.39.2014.05.13.04.55.45 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 13 May 2014 04:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 12:55:43 +0100 From: RW 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> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:55:49 -0000 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.