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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 21:55:56 +0000 (GMT) David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org> wrote:

> 	Moving the games into $prefix/games would remove the conflict
> 	between omega and TeX :) - its also nice for people to cd into
> 	games and have a browse. Personally I like it...

I am with you! Games are the only class of programs, where I understood
the collection into separate group (from the users point of view). The
separation into /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, ... is much less clear to me,
but doesn't hurt me (which(1) is my friend :-).

If I am looking for a new game, I always do
  $ ls /usr/games
- oh that's the reason I didn't find any new games since BSD4.2 ;-).
Not really, my 5 month old daughter (the youngest NetBSD user ?-) loves
me for showing her xeyes, which is located in /usr/X11R6/bin.

And there is also the "dungon master" dm(8) there, should /usr/pkg/games
not also use it?

For all other programs I do
  $ man -k <subject>,
which pointed me to /usr/games/prime to determine the factors of the
total number of sectors of my MO.

    Bernd Salbrechter

> 
> 		David/absolute
> 
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > [ On Wednesday, February 9, 2000 at 01:52:32 (-0700), Tim Rightnour wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: share vs. share/games (vs. /var/games)
> > >
> > > Putting games in ${PREFIX}/games is really annoying..  now people have to muck
> > > with thier path and whatnot to play them.. thats not nice.
> > 
> > I couldn't agree more!  :-)
> > 
> > Putting add-on packages in ${PREFIX}/bin is equally annoying.
> > 
> > Just set PREFIX=/usr and be done with it.
> > 
> > (Seriously:  put "PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/games ; export PATH" in
> > /etc/profile and be done with it.  What kind of Unix admin doesn't put
> > /usr/games in the default path too, BTW?)
> > 
> > -- 
> > 							Greg A. Woods
> > 
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> > 
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