On Sun, Apr 03, 2016 at 08:05:05PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: [cut]
> > 2] /etc/profile > > 2.1] $PATH for users includes by default two specialty (and frivolous) > entries - for games folders. This strikes me as inconsistent with what's > meant to be a "universal OS" that can be expected to be deployed in > everything from supercomputers to iot-microcontrollers. > I personally don't see any problem with having /usr/games in the PATH of regular users, or why this might be a problem for a "Universal OS", even when it is deployed to supercomputers and iot-boards (unfortunately Linux does not run on microcontrollers, yet, mainly due to the general lack of some form of underlying MMU in the vast majority of microcontrollers...). games have been a part of unix since its inception, since when it was mainly used for a definitely-non-frovolous activity like handling thousands of patent-related documents. My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
