The future of fortune(6)

[Diane Bruce]

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 02:40:42PM -0600, A. Wilcox wrote:
> On 24/11/17 13:19, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > Pardon me, but it's 2017 and the 4.3BSD system index isn't an immutable bible.
> > 
> > As a general push to packaging things in general, turning fortune into
> > a package seems like some low hanging fruit.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -adrian
> 
> 
> This, so much this.  Why is it so controversial to put the thing in a
> package?  Why do people want so badly to just remove it?  Why wasn't it
> discussed about putting it in a package?

Let's bring back badblocks too while we are at it.

> 
> It seems like if, instead of *deleting* things, they were just moved to
> packages, probably nobody would have complained.  Or at least, it would
> have been fewer people (I wouldn't have), and the complaints would have
> been lighter ("you could have told me" vs "how dare you").
> 
> Live and learn.  And please, package it.  ALL of it.

Yes. Please.

> 
> --arw
> 
> -- 
> A. Wilcox (awilfox)
> Open-source programmer (C, C++, Python)
> https://code.foxkit.us/u/awilfox/
> 


Diane Bruce
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