The future of fortune(6)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <201711261350.vAQDmCqn000352 at fire.js.berklix.net>, "Julian H. 
Stacey
" writes:
> Hi Hackers@ & Arch@
> Mcl's long held animosity to me distracts.  Better to consider ideas
> not by author, but on merit or otherwise, & maybe improve them.

I think you might be reading too much into it.

To bring this on topic. Fortune needs to go. The process to remove it has 
commenced and will after review be implemented.

Why? Games should be, if anywhere, in ports. Take for example what Red Hat 
has done. There are no games in Red Hat 6. Sure you might find some in EPL. 
And as of RHEL 7, absolutely nothing. I suspect that they've made the 
choice to avoid problems like this. We should do likewise. I would fully 
support removal of games from ports as well but I might tolerate them there 
-- why if I install gnome or kde do I want to give up MB or GB of precious 
disk to games?

This is 2017. I really don't understand why there is so much angst about 
this.

Lastly. I'm not totally against games. My 4 and 5 year old grandkids play 
games on game tablets. However I would never let my grandkids even see what 
fortune spits out. Much of it was offensive. I would have been ashamed had 
they seen some of the outputs.

Fortune in base is totally indefensible and for that matter even in ports 
it is. It absolutely has to go. I fully support Benno's effort.

To repeat: To say that mcl has animosity toward you is really unfair.


-- 
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.


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> > before discussion, should by policy be automaticaly reverted,
> > & committers bit suspended, pending committer peer review - Not with
> > reference to the desirability or otherwise of a commit, but for
> > imposing on FreeBSD without prior discussion.
> > 
> > Commiter conduct reviews should be seperate from 
> > discussion of desirability of a contentious commit.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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