From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 5 07:38:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA16345 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 07:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id HAA16339 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 07:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atf3r@cs.virginia.edu) Received: from ares.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa18875; 5 Nov 97 10:37 EST Received: from stretch.cs.virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by ares.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA11932; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:37:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from atf3r@localhost) by stretch.cs.virginia.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA28154; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:37:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 10:37:48 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? In-Reply-To: <3096.878596384@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 Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Adding this to the fact that the "games" there are antiquated and > probably never actually played by anyone suggests, to me, a strong > need to simply nuke the bloody things once and for all and stop > distributing games from anywhere but /usr/ports/games (where fortune, > arguably one of the few "games" still in wide use, could easily be > moved). Maybe they aren't any fun to the "old guard", but newbies often find them entertaining. This can be anyone form a child to a spouse. My wife liked playing hangman for a while. What can I say? ;-) The games is already a separate distribution bundle, so other than fixing the legal issues as the arise, I'd like to see them stay in the base source tree. It's kind of a heritage/tradition thing to me. Besides, what happens to section 6 of the manual if you ditch the games? Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/