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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:44:35 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The future of fortune(6)
Message-ID:  <5A1AFD83.8000503@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <201711261559.vAQFxqQD049551@slippy.cwsent.com>

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26.11.2017 22:59, Cy Schubert wrote:

> Fortune in base is totally indefensible and for that matter even in ports 
> it is. It absolutely has to go. I fully support Benno's effort.

Please don't mix fortune(6) C code with contents of src/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles.

The code src/usr.bin/fortune/{fortune|strfile} is valuable and independend of exact datfiles
and there is no reason to remove it from the base as we have no alternatives for the task whey solve.





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