RFC: purging old perl-5.005_03 from base

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Mon Aug 2 13:05:20 PDT 2004


On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 20:43:56 +0200
Enemy God <jasse at xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Chris Pressey wrote:
> > 
> > Here's the current status of
> > what-still-needs-perl-in-DragonFly-AFAICT:
> > 
> > * src/usr.sbin/spkrtest/spkrtest.pl --> usr/bin/spkrtest
> > 
> >   Not relevant to us, as systimers preclude using the speaker.
> >   Maybe we should just trash (or convert to using soundcard)
> >   all of the speaker-related things in base (incl. some games.)
> 
> Are a bunch of old games really needed in the base system ?

I don't know about "needed" - I think it would make sense to re-evaluate
them, though.  In my mind, "random" is not a game and "grdc" is probably
not a game, while "enigma" probably is (lest people confuse it with real
encryption.)

-Chris





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