Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:49:10 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgra?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?v?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <4206ACF6.1030901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050206072356.GH49637@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <xzpzmynje4n.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20050202181848.B1D6F5D07@ptavv.es.net> <20050206072356.GH49637@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at 10:18:48 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >>>From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Smørgrav?=) >>>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:16:40 +0100 >>>Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org >>> >>>Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>> >>>> Modified files: >>>> games/fortune/datfiles fortunes >>>> Log: >>>> Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2. >>> >>>I'd vote for simply merging the two. >> >>I'll admit to being old, but at one time fortune2 was supposed to be for >>longer fortunes while fortune was for one or two line entries. At one >>time fortune2 had some rather long entries. This is less important now >>than it was when we were (OK, I was) logging in on an ASR33 and it took >>8 seconds for a full line of text. >> >>Do we really want to merge them? (Probably) But should we think about >>keeping fortune as a separate file with all messages from fortune2 that >>are less than about 200 characters. After all, some folks are still on >>fairly slow links. > > > I don't think that anybody is on such a slow link that this makes a > big difference any more. If they are, they've probably disabled > fortune on login anyway. I'm in favour of merging them. I'm also in > favour of adding your historical anecdote (which I didn't know about I agree with both of these. Doug
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