Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 11:18:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, "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: <201711251918.vAPJI2IB072754@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> of "Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:19:40 -0800." <CAJ-Vmo=puH=3%2B5HbKop3%2BWzyG35idZa-CMFSMJmfNmRyG7zFCw@mail.gmail.com>
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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. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few. > > > On 24 November 2017 at 08:47, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: > > fortune(6) is listed in ring bound 4.3BSD System Index. > > Butchering on personal whim without prior agreement seems abuse. > > BSD should be [temporarily] reverted & the commit bit suspended, > > pending commiters' peer review of an un-authorised deletion. > > Then decide what what to do with fortune. > > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > -- > > Julian H. Stacey, Computer Consultant, BSD Linux Unix Systems Engineer, Mun > ich > > Reply below, Prefix '> '. Plain text, No .doc, base64, HTML, quoted-printa > ble. > > http://berklix.eu/brexit/ UK stole 3,500,000 votes; 700,000 from Brits in > EU. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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