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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:02:14 +1100
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?E=DFer?= <se@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r553259 - in head/deskutils/calendar: . files
Message-ID:  <20201026030214.GC19841@eureka.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <202010260137.09Q1bYKB004543@slippy.cwsent.com>
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On Sunday, 25 October 2020 at 18:37:34 -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <20201026012126.GB19841@eureka.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey"
> wri
> tes:
>>> Anticipating the next step: removal of calendar from base, entirely.
>>
>> It's a bit late for that.  We discussed this at length (too much
>> length for some people) on arch@, and we came to the agreement that
>> the base calendar(1) is a Good Thing, and only the data files needed
>> to go somewhere where they can be shared amongst projects.
>>
>> FWIW, *all* OSs that I've seen, with the possible exception of
>> Microsoft, have calendar(1).  It serves a useful purpose.  What's your
>> problem with it?
>
> The Linux distros I know of don't provide it, even as an optional RPM.

The machine I have access to, running Debian Testing, has it
apparently as a standard installation.  Nobody on the system had asked
for it.  But yes, I was surprised, too.

> IMO it's usefulness is questionable, especially with the multitude
> of tools that already do the same thing.

There is?  I haven't found anything similar.  That was one of the
things we discussed on arch@, but we came up empty-handed.  If you
could come up with links, that would be very useful.

Greg
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