On 9 Oct, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:29:08AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > >> What remains? All the games that dm(6) oversees. Things like >> adventure(6), trek(6), battlestar(6) and so on. These are good >> candidates for ports IMO. Folks may want to play them, but there is no >> point in wasting time and space on them _by_default_. In some cases, >> better upgrades are already available in ports (hack --> nethack). I >> would like to make a port out of these and remove them from the base >> distribution. > > I'd like to see these removed only if nobody is willing to maintain them. > Check lines 70-75 of src/games/larn/main.c for an example of how out of > touch they are with what's considered to be good practice (5 buffer overflows > in 6 lines of code). Merging in NetBSD and/or OpenBSD's changes would be a > good place to start. I think rogue, hack, primes, fortune and worm are worth > keeping, but I don't have the time or patience to maintain them.
I've had a patch in the system (bin/12727) since 1999/07/20 that does just this for the NetBSD patches. I've tried a few times to get it committed. See the patch for details... -- Stephen J. Roznowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
