The future of fortune(6)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20171126163259.6fb55366 at gumby.homeunix.com>, RW via 
freebsd-hackers
 writes:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 07:59:52 -0800
> Cy Schubert wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
> You have to try quite hard to find them, they aren't given by default,
> and:
>
> $ fortune -o 
> No fortunes found
> in /usr/share/games/fortune:/usr/local/share/games/fortune.

Let's take an example, when I was ~ 35 years younger than now.

A buddy of mine had a 3 year old son. His son would insert an MS DOS floppy 
disk and power on his XT clone computer. Once booted his 3 year old son 
removed the floppy and inserted his favourite game, entered the command on 
the command line and started playing. Kids today are much more capable than 
my friend's son was so many years ago.

We already have a port that can support it. Someone could repocopy the port 
to just install fortune.

It's 2017. If Red Hat doesn't support fortune why should we?


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.