Re: Bug#2141: Bsdutils should be broken up
On Mon, 15 Jan 1996, Austin Donnelly wrote:
> I'm working on a bsdgames package, which would contain (amongst others):
> prime
> factor
> pom
> bcd
> number
>
> This would be an opportunity to move vacation, calendar, and banner into
> bsdgames.
>
> However, what about other classics such as:
> trek
> worm
> snake
> wump
> tetris (for ttys)
> robots
> morse
> hangman
> fish
> boggle
> ?
>
> What do people think about their presence in bsdgames?
>
> Should there be two new packages: bsdgames for the "useful" games (first
> list) and a bsdtoys package for the more frivolous ones?
Seems to me that a game is a game. The destinction between "useful" and
"frivolous" doesn't seem all that productive. The more fractured and
broken up the packaging becomes, the harder it is for a selective
installer, like myself, to find all the packages pertaining to a
particular topic area.
More to the point, we should ask ourselves whether vacation, calendar,
and banner, are games or utilities/tools. If they are not games what
class of tool are they?
I sort of see them as text tools...
Just my $.02,
Dwarf
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