The future of fortune(6)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <CAJ-Vmo=puH=3+5HbKop3+WzyG35idZa-CMFSMJmfNmRyG7zFCw at mail.gmail.c
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, Adrian Chadd writes:
> 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

I see no reason why fortune(6) cannot be a port. Much of /usr/games (IIRC 
that's where it was) has been gutted anyway and not only that but other 
more functional parts of 4.4BSD have been culled and are simply gone.

I think the way forward is:

1. Make fortune a port.

2. Whatever was in games and is in ports could be installed through a 
bsd-games meta-port.

People should realize that ports are just as valid as base. Not everything 
should be in base. This will become truer once base is fully distributed as 
packages. A monolithic base is so 1960s. Even the IBM mainframe I worked on 
in the 1970s used packages (IBM called them FMIDs). Let's get on with the 
1970s and move it to ports/packages.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
FreeBSD UNIX:  <cy at FreeBSD.org>   Web:  http://www.FreeBSD.org

	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.

>
>
> On 24 November 2017 at 08:47, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> > fortune(6) is listed in ring bound 4.3BSD System Index.
> > Butchering on personal whim without prior agreement seems abuse.
> > BSD should be [temporarily] reverted & the commit bit suspended,
> > pending commiters' peer review of an un-authorised deletion.
> > Then decide what what to do with fortune.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
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> > Julian H. Stacey, Computer Consultant, BSD Linux Unix Systems Engineer, Mun
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