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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  We're not maintaining a historical document, we're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."
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