On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote: > > The current flare-up over src/games/wargames reminds me that we are > > carrying a bunch of Really Old Stuff in usr/games/. > > > > Yes folks, its that time of the year. > > > > I ask myself, "why are we wasting ``make world'' time and install > > bandwidth on 1970's-era games?". > > > > Some folks will answer "tradition". This argument holds little > > water. Programs come and go, and there is no firm reference or agreement > > as to what is "really traditional". This agument can be used to import > > emacs on the grounds that it is documented in the O'Reilly BSD 4.4 > > books. > > I'm all for moving them to the projects directory in cvs, that seemed like > a good solution for sccs.
Well, that's only useful if it's actually a project, i.e. if people plan to develop them. Since that hasn't happened for most of the games in /usr/games over the lifetime of FreeBSD it's not likely this is about to change. Kris
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