Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:38:20 -0800 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, lidl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <7326690.xrhihQoxKt@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <6ba033f3-82ce-da58-1720-623fed180479@FreeBSD.org> References: <66D39828-ADBA-4973-BEB8-B2F6657E9996@FreeBSD.org> <6ba033f3-82ce-da58-1720-623fed180479@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 03:01:17 PM Kurt Lidl wrote: > On 11/22/17 11:29 AM, Benno Rice wrote: > > I would like people’s opinion on which of the following two paths we should take: > > > > 1) Complete removal of fortune and freebsd-tips, remove its usage from the default .login/.profile files. > > > > 2) Reworking fortune(6) to remove the offensive fortune flag and make freebsd-tips the default, possibly by symlinking it as /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes. > > Of these options, only #2 is approximately correct. > > I think just leaving the code as-is, and symlinking the freebsd-tips to > be the default fortune datafile is the correct course of action. > > Removing the offensive flag handling dictates policy towards users > of the program. If someone wants to add their own offensive datafile > to their system, the code ought to allow them to select it. Agreed. I think removing the default datfiles so that someone can maintain a port is fine, but we should leave freebsd-tips and the tool. When the -o database was moved out of base we didn't remove the -o option, but instead extended the tool to work with string files in /usr/local. The current state is fine. The drama and lost time has always been about the 4BSD datfiles, never about freebsd-tips or the tool itself, so the issue is resolved. -- John Baldwin
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