The future of fortune(6)

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Sun Nov 26 17:45:00 UTC 2017


26.11.2017 22:59, Cy Schubert wrote:

> 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.

Please don't mix fortune(6) C code with contents of src/usr.bin/fortune/datfiles.

The code src/usr.bin/fortune/{fortune|strfile} is valuable and independend of exact datfiles
and there is no reason to remove it from the base as we have no alternatives for the task whey solve.





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