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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:41:03 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: src/games bikeshed time.
Message-ID:  <20021010014103.GA348@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200210091029.g99AT8hb009974@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021009162715.A49962@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> > The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are
> > carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/.
> >=20
> > Yes folks, its that time of the year.
> >=20
> > I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install
> > bandwidth on 1970's-era games?".
> >=20
> > Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little
> > water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or agreement
> > as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to import
> > emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4
> > books.
>=20
> I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed like
> a good solution for sccs.

Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people
plan to develop them.  Since that hasn't happened for most of the
games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this
is about to change.

Kris

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