The future of fortune(6)

[Cy Schubert]

In message <5A1AFD83.8000503 at grosbein.net>, Eugene Grosbein writes:
> 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/datfi
> les.
>
> 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.

Putting my Canadian hat on instead of being my frustrated self today:

I think the way forward is to replace fortune in base with a shell script 
to conditionally execute ${LOCALBASE}/bin/fortune and if not found advises 
the user to ask their sysadmin to install a fortune port/package.

I have a revision in to do the removal and plan on creating a series of 
ports based on bsdgames. However I'm totally willing to let someone else 
take the lead on this.

I think this is acceptable.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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