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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:05:41 -0400
From:      James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: src/games bikeshed time.
Message-ID:  <C779989E-DBF4-11D6-8BA8-003065BAAC62@well.com>
In-Reply-To: <C310A4CC-DBF3-11D6-8BA8-003065BAAC62@well.com>

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As a quick follow up, the PR database shows between fifteen and twenty
PRs relating to src/games.

Also, if this happened, should fortune be treated differently and
moved into src/usr.bin?  Or should it become a port?

Jamie

On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 PM, James Howard wrote:

> So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as 
> Ports,
> how would anyone feel about this?
>
> FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port.  I could
> Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days.  Anyone interested?
>
> Jamie
>
> On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>> 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/.
>>>>
>>>> Yes folks, its that time of the year.
>>>>
>>>> I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install
>>>> bandwidth on 1970's-era games?".
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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