Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 21:18:06 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <199711040518.VAA12174@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 18:37:25 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.971103183234.5961E-100000@alive.znep.com>
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> 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). > > I would miss /usr/games/rot13; after all, it is all I get for encyryption > in the base install. Don't tell me pathetic US laws will remove this one > too. <g> > > But seriously, not having rot13 (and fortune) in the base system would be > bad IMHO. primes, random, number are also good shell script utils, but > they are obscure enough to be left out of the base. Give me a break . Many of us build the system from scratch . If the games are moved to a ports section you lose nothing. Amancio
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