Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:22:35 -0800 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <CALeGphxU4snk3fcJsPR8i1DMhknWkqQA4zQ9qpmw9sBvX5GErA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201711251918.vAPJI2IB072754@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=puH=3%2B5HbKop3%2BWzyG35idZa-CMFSMJmfNmRyG7zFCw@mail.gmail.com> <201711251918.vAPJI2IB072754@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> wrote: > In message <CAJ-Vmo=puH=3+5HbKop3+WzyG35idZa-CMFSMJmfNmRyG7zFCw@ > mail.gmail.c > om> > , Adrian Chadd writes: > > hi, > > > > Pardon me, but it's 2017 and the 4.3BSD system index isn't an immutable > bible > > . > > > > As a general push to packaging things in general, turning fortune into > > a package seems like some low hanging fruit. > > > > > > > > -adrian > > I see no reason why fortune(6) cannot be a port. Much of /usr/games (IIRC > that's where it was) has been gutted anyway and not only that but other > more functional parts of 4.4BSD have been culled and are simply gone. > > I think the way forward is: > > 1. Make fortune a port. > > 2. Whatever was in games and is in ports could be installed through a > bsd-games meta-port. > > People should realize that ports are just as valid as base. Not everything > should be in base. This will become truer once base is fully distributed as > packages. A monolithic base is so 1960s. Even the IBM mainframe I worked on > in the 1970s used packages (IBM called them FMIDs). Let's get on with the > 1970s and move it to ports/packages. > > > Yes! I've always been annoyed (in the past) with doing an rm -rf /usr/games in my new server installs.
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