From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 4 06:39:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14351 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 06:39:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA14346 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 06:39:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id HAA24471; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 07:39:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA11778; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 07:41:31 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 07:41:31 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <7680.878636931@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Sometimes the historical anachronisms come in handy, such as > > rot13 (which seems to have vanished already). > > And which doesn't need to be in games in the first place - it was > misfiled. Again, if people were thinking with their brains rather > than their glads, this would become swiftly apparent to even the > dullest child among us. So, to seperate out the issues here, first form a list of everything that should be around but not in /usr/games because it isn't. Then propose moving those to usr.bin or wherever is appropriate for the particular program. After that, propose nuking what is left of /usr/games in favor of a port or whatever. I use some of the non-games in /usr/games for reasonably portable (on FreeBSD; ie. don't have to install this port or that port) shell scripts. They can be quite handy. I don't use any of the games in /usr/games for shell scripts. If I want them, I can install a port. That is my only objection to nuking /usr/games completely.