Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 22:31:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: questions <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: games Message-ID: <20140512223136.93dd39c9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com> References: <5371299D.9060905@a1poweruser.com>
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On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:05:49 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > I remember back in 6.x a lot of talk about killing every thing about > games. Todays version of the handbook has no mention of games, but the > bsdinstall installer has option to install games and there is a ports > collection category called games. bsdconfig has no games installer. > > So what is the general status of games? Maybe they have been moved to a port now (just like the former documentation)? What's in /usr/games? I don't have access to a v10 system at the moment, but my home system at v8 does have them. > Is the handbook correct and bsdinstall and the ports collection just > never got cleaned up or does the handbook need a chapter on games? Do you refer to the games in /usr/games, or would you wish for more information about gaming on FreeBSD in general? (I'm using my home desktop for gaming too, and I got even the strangest games working here.) > Do you really think stage is going to be added to those game ports? > Or is the underlining intention of killing all ports that are not staged > by june 30 the method being used to get rid of all the game ports? That would be sad. :-( On the v10 system I installed few months ago, I did even install OpenArena, but as there was no precompiled pacakge, it required a "make install", plus that it didn't build with Clang (instead required gcc). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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