Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 07:41:31 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971104073430.11738A-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <7680.878636931@time.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Sometimes the historical anachronisms come in handy, such as > > rot13 (which seems to have vanished already). > > And which doesn't need to be in games in the first place - it was > misfiled. Again, if people were thinking with their brains rather > than their glads, this would become swiftly apparent to even the > dullest child among us. So, to seperate out the issues here, first form a list of everything that should be around but not in /usr/games because it isn't. Then propose moving those to usr.bin or wherever is appropriate for the particular program. After that, propose nuking what is left of /usr/games in favor of a port or whatever. I use some of the non-games in /usr/games for reasonably portable (on FreeBSD; ie. don't have to install this port or that port) shell scripts. They can be quite handy. I don't use any of the games in /usr/games for shell scripts. If I want them, I can install a port. That is my only objection to nuking /usr/games completely.
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