From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 4 17:46:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA27327 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA27321 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 17:46:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA02964; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 18:46:19 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199711050146.SAA02964@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: mv /usr/src/games /dev/null - any objections? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 01:46:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <13165.878689582@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 4, 97 04:26:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [Some great Terry invective elided] > > I can only repeat my earlier statement: Experience has shown us that > the benefit-to-risk ratio of /usr/src/games is low. Period. I don't > personally care about the degree of emotional attachment you or anyone > else here has to them because I do not regard this as an issue to be > debated on emotional grounds - save that for the anti-abortion debates > because this is just a collection of bits who's "standardness" is > entirely secondary to their function and can always be loaded as a > port by the aging hackers who, with the aid of a growing collection of > "Speed Racer" cars and Mighty Mouse T-shirts, seek to recapture their > lost youth through such nostalgia. I'm not denying you that, Terry, > calm yourself. :) Fine. While you are purging those things which make BSD into BSD, why don't we start with killing /etc/rc in favor of /etc/rc?.d, and at least get some technological and functional benefit out of your castration binge? Clearly, the standardness of /etc/rc files is entirely secondary to their function. Right? Or is "Not Invented Here" stronger than "You might have to send a letter, and if that fails, do what you're going to do anyway"? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.