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Date:      20 Aug 2003 08:29:46 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
To:        "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who installed games on my system?
Message-ID:  <443cfwfr5x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <002f01c36714$69d74bb0$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <002f01c36714$69d74bb0$04fea8c0@moe>

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"Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> writes:

> After yesterday's cvsup and buildworld, I see that the games have been
> installed.

By default, that's right.  "/usr/src/games"
There's a make.conf variable to disable that.

> I select the kernel-developer distribution when installing, and that
> doesn't include games.

True.

> I 'did' elect to cvsup all the ports and all the source code, but how
> did the games get installed?

Then you installed from the full source base, which does.
[Until 5.x, where they were trimmed back to only the "games" that
aren't actually games, like factor(6) and so on.]



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