So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, how would anyone feel about this?
FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
