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From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles gerrold.limerick
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On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:32:41PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
> Fortune(6) only searches for stuff on it's own share directory. Sure,
> one can change fortune(6) to accomodate for that, but since we _are_
> expanding our fortunes database, why make this particular one into a
> port?
> 

A sensible way of doing this would be to have fortune also look in
/usr/local/share/fortune and include any databases from there.  People
could then maintain different ports of fortunes.  Is it worth the effort?

Joe

(I'm not volunteering.)


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