From owner-cvs-share Wed Dec 17 13:22:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA14773 for cvs-share-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:22:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-share) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA14679; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 13:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1016670; 17 Dec 97 21:19 GMT Received: (from jraynard@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA09964; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:26:51 GMT (envelope-from jraynard) Message-ID: <19971217202648.06343@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:26:48 +0000 From: James Raynard To: Brian Somers Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-share@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/misc uk.phone uk.postcodes inter.phone References: <19971216214054.62656@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199712170105.BAA27803@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <199712170105.BAA27803@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:05:10AM +0000 Sender: owner-cvs-share@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:05:10AM +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > > I'm not going to complain if someone wants to remove uk.*, na.phone > and inter.phone, but I don't see why the Americans among us should > get all the attention :-) I have some sympathy with that last statement :-) Well, inter.phone is for phone codes outside (North) America. In any case, *.phone are only in there because they were inherited from BSD (along with a number of other files of somewhat doubtful utility). The info is definitely useful, but too specialised and detailed to be of interest to more than a small percentage of the user community. Unlike timezones, it's not needed to get the system working, so I would suggest making a package out of it, rather than filling up the base distribution with a complete set of phone codes for every country that has a FreeBSD user (if we have the UK, we should really have France, Germany, Japan, Russia, etc and if we have all the "big" countries we should have all the "small" ones as well [1]). Just MHO. [1] "Big" and "small" referring to my guess at a country's share of the user base, rather than geographical/political/economic/cultural importance. -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/