On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:59:42PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > > What remains? All the games that dm(6) oversees. Things like > > adventure(6), trek(6), battlestar(6) and so on. These are good > > candidates for ports IMO. Folks may want to play them, but there is no > > point in wasting time and space on them _by_default_. In some cases, > > better upgrades are already available in ports (hack --> nethack). I > > would like to make a port out of these and remove them from the base > > distribution. > > I'd like to see these removed only if nobody is willing to maintain them.
I think that's an excellent point. These programs should NOT stay in the base system if there is no-one to maintain them (I'm not ruling out moving them to ports on other grounds). Kris
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