Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:34:28 +0300 From: =?UTF-8?B?0JLQuNGC0LDQu9C40Lkg0KLRg9GA0L7QstC10YY=?= <corebug@corebug.net> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <CAKB6gVgM-x4d556DcnhciPvNv6qP9TwVZZtb6jtNdv5VR9OoMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53720F06.1070404@a1poweruser.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> <53714A17.8090207@gmail.com> <20140513125543.3cd46f57@gumby.homeunix.com> <53720F06.1070404@a1poweruser.com>
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Sorry for off-topic, but http://ipfw.ru/quotes/9656 :-) 2014-05-13 15:24 GMT+03:00 Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- ~~~ WBR, Vitaliy Turovets Lead Operations Engineer Global Message Services Ukraine +38(093)265-70-55 VITU-RIPE
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