Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:41:21 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/dict web2 Message-ID: <365.915212481@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Jan 1999 18:21:38 %2B0100." <19990101182138.A23601@panke.de.freebsd.org>
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In message <19990101182138.A23601@panke.de.freebsd.org>, Wolfram Schneider writes: >On 1998-12-25 02:11:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <19981225113123.Q12346@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes: >> >On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 16:57:03 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: >> >>> Agreed. We're not maintaining a historical document, we're >> >>> maintaining a list of current American spellings. >> >> >> >> We could easily/should add British and Australian spellings too. >> > >> >And a whole lot of others. Did somebody mention >> >ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/ in this thread? There's a lot of >> >stuff there, and it is probably worth including. >> >> STOP!!!!! >> >> There is general concent in -core that the only reason why Webster >> survives in FreeBSD is because of a couple of dependencies. > >Dependencies? The dictionary /usr/share/dict/words >appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX, 20 years ago. > >There is no reason to remove it. Plenty reasons, but as I said, it is being kept because of I think hangman and and some other game... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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