On 2018-06-14 11:42:22, Simon McVittie wrote: > Debian can choose to put games in the /.../games directories, or in the > standard directories /usr/bin, /usr/share etc., or any mixture of our > choice, orthogonal to whether/when we move to FHS 3.0.
It's been a while since this was discussed, but I have just learned of this issue, so sorry for bumping an old thread but... I have recently learned that FreeBSD moved their games out of /usr/games and into /usr/bin. Things like rot13(6), fortune(6), primes(6) are all in the main PATH now, amazing no? :) That happened in 2015: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/ObsoleteFiles.inc?id=11d9aa670723f508821f2bf6980a555360783a80 I wonder if we should just do the same. I'm not sure I see the point of having all that stuff in a separate directory, personnally, but at least in this case we shouldn't needlessly diverge from upstream... although in terms of upstream for bsd-games, things are kind of hazy, at best, from what I understand. (Kind of OT, but for example, wtf(6) is not in FreeBSD at all and comes from NetBSD. It's maintained through a patch(1) in debian/patches on bsd-games...) Not sure what other BSDs are doing with their /usr/games, and I understand we're not a BSD, but I figured I would at least document what's going on on their side of that silly historical divide. a. -- If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, The first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. - Gerald Weinberg
