> 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?
I've got the port-ifying job 90% done, in the style of ports/net/freebsd-uucp. If you want to maintain it, I'd be delighted! Are you a committer? M > 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 -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
