The future of fortune(6)

[Peter Wemm]

On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 11:22:41 AM Benno Rice wrote:
> > On Nov 22, 2017, at 09:35, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
> > wrote:> 
> > When functionality is removed from src, a port is usually created.
> > The datfiles should be available from ports/games/bsd-fortune.
> 
> Feel free to create it. If someone else wants to take editorial
> responsibility for those files I’m all for it. FreeBSD should not be taking
> responsibility for them and I don’t wish to take that responsibility
> either.

If I add up the person-hours expended on fortune related drama over the 22 
years I've been involved in the project then I quickly come to the conclusion 
that it should go.  For as long as I can remember, it has been *the* drama 
lightning rod for the project.

With regret, I'm in the 'move to ports' camp on this.  The whole thing, 
including tips.

However, I'd be in favor of something like having freebsd-tips be offered as a 
default post-install package in the installer.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
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