Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 08:24:38 -0400 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <53720F06.1070404@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <20140513125543.3cd46f57@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com> <20140513125543.3cd46f57@gumby.homeunix.com>
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RW wrote: > 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. > "/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. random is in the kernel. I have been removing /usr/games directory since release 4.0 and never have had any problems.
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