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It's a historical unix thing. Things in /usr/games (which were not all games) were frivolous and not essential to the OS, and were distributed as a separate tap
by bityard 4y ago
It's a historical unix thing. Things in /usr/games (which were not all games) were frivolous and not essential to the OS, and were distributed as a separate tape or archive so that admins could easily choose whether or not to install them.
- jmclnx 4y ago/usr/games existing allows people to find the most important binaries. If in */bin finding all of these could be difficult
- KerrAvon 4y agoWe have a hierarchical filesystem. /usr/bin/games could be a thing.
- shagie 4y agoI'll also note /usr/games/dm ( https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames/tree/master/dm https://github.com/vattam/BSDGames/tree/master/dm ) which allowed sysadmins to restrict when programs in /usr/games could be run. Setting up that structure in /usr/bin would be more work to maintain.