From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 12:34:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 686F195F for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 12:34:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oa0-f52.google.com (mail-oa0-f52.google.com [209.85.219.52]) (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 2EE1321B7 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 12:34:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f52.google.com with SMTP id eb12so286141oac.11 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 05:34:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=VVNj3+Zt19CsRTBf+YTSe2yf6GFK/fGGKkjI8Zy/EMk=; b=UsjH1/z3Ku2EVkHoe7P5rA+XDLj94LPm/mABkziQ1wYPTdaAo9xjSXjVg9ytOrbr0+ AuCVl+fb6W9PAZ4fOgnM5wES5x+4ntvR706dR0nMgcsxCv1vWAjXOMVY0Z+hnWj9TSts 0PCcpq0OaylpaTHCB81npWOkzkSrecX2a42DVPA5ZIi00awb/xVkpLKK5CMIdOWnbtRj /D2ct6GZ11IMC8a78kXHhGS7IDmIbVgo46fe5xTS1K6oFfyy5woJktSaqXoUIeQ7bods slwoRcCDzNiCZeUbQo1WdM2pKnek/KUT1QxPx05vQWSoq1cN/shnM7AdF85InDdYqT28 O5WQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm4IeF93iEtCHWTPHoGNmRxnkaZ5qKtaDph9gzZRL2N2B5yJzePURNpXMeHcgQ3sJ5CGrt8 X-Received: by 10.60.76.194 with SMTP id m2mr41986756oew.47.1399984489267; Tue, 13 May 2014 05:34:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.76.177.39 with HTTP; Tue, 13 May 2014 05:34:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [185.46.89.236] 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> From: =?UTF-8?B?0JLQuNGC0LDQu9C40Lkg0KLRg9GA0L7QstC10YY=?= Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:34:28 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: games To: Fbsd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: RW , FreeBSD Questions List 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 12:34:56 -0000 Sorry for off-topic, but http://ipfw.ru/quotes/9656 :-) 2014-05-13 15:24 GMT+03:00 Fbsd8 : > 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