From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 13:30:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32F60106566B for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:30:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from army.of.root@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B198F8FC08 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:30:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm9 with SMTP id 9so414537fxm.13 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:30:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Na/qWIuWQNe4hohKkKxxayjKP7bKaL2ku4U8BNxG1u8=; b=Tgx4DHyEA3BWHeuxZqZ4kV39pX2qKtNfL8hzevT1Blq0YH5BXYMKbkaJj49JLt5jp1 ugtMwsK0yog4QjufVlZXkYKCLg49aZk8ZcDotkMI7CMKBrkzo0cRJkweFUEJRHUdMzj8 h9kyrh4QhdZIqrHFxk+1g/r22X/91sIOF7SD8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nDvqYPVLDnSh9uHEWQqqdwAUyuBoQrnb5np1WYV75UFfucbyHePj2+X9dBTSmfdJ/F DwVCxiUB2lbZD0xpbMDNnML7ZLtbITypftuInQ5m69W2ShyJRCniEP39k8p/K2oCziI/ ibxvyt4sg4zly2LmqmvVlxqfXkF9WmQ28VhMA= Received: by 10.103.226.14 with SMTP id d14mr55564mur.114.1286456407017; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from titanium.local ([131.234.67.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a16sm504771fak.19.2010.10.07.06.00.05 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CADC453.7010404@googlemail.com> Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:00:03 +0200 From: "army.of.root" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul B Mahol References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brandon Gooch , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Move banner to games X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:30:06 -0000 On 10\10\02 18:48, Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 10/2/10, Brandon Gooch wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Paul B Mahol wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I see no point to have it in usr/bin. >> >> Cool! This is the first time I've heard of this program! How come the >> folks at my university who manage the line printers have never let me >> on to this?! >> >> Ahh -- wait a sec -- I'm beginning to see your point about the whole >> "move it to games thing"... >> >> -Brandon aka "The Green Bar Bandit" >> > > NetBSD and OpenBSD have this version in games and horizontal version > of banner in usr/bin. > > I see no point to have this program(s) in base at all. > > I will just stop here. Hi, A horizontal version of banner could be nice for motd etc. I like banner. It makes me smile and think that FreeBSD is a cosy place to be. have a nice day :)