The future of fortune(6)

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

Farhan Khan <khanzf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest removing fortune(6) from base. It is essentially a tweak and 
> best left for FreeBSD derivatives (GhostBSD, TrueOS, etc), not something 
> for base. It seems inappropriate for servers.

And whilst you're at it, the name "Free"BSD should be changed to something
more professional too, and the silly logos and mascots made more formal -
I'm sure the freebsd foundation can part with lots of generously donated
cash for that. I'm sure daemon imagery offends many.

I assume all the things that used to be under /usr/games should go too?

And don't get me started on the sources! Especially those nasty GNU people
with their rude language in the comments. F'words and everything! Truely
shocking.

Purge purge purge!

(In case the obvious is missed, sarcasm...)

Fortune and others are 'historical' and tiny - and has already been pointed
out, some people use it already with their own data sets.

I see no purpose in removing it. If you're than concerned submit a KNOB
patch, and then those who want to can disable it in src.conf - how about
WITHOUT_STUFF_I_THINK_IS_INAPPROPRIATE=yes

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