The future of fortune(6)

[Chris H]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 09:11:43 -0800 "Cy Schubert" <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> said

> 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?
OK this is the 2nd time you've said that, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to
respond. :)
FreeBSD is *not* Red Hat, nor any other "flavor" of Linux. Who cares if some
other flavor of OS does, or does not "do it".
Sorry. I *greatly* appreciate that FreeBSD is /different/ than all the Linux
flavors, and would dearly hate that it felt that it should feel/be "Linux like".
Over sensitive? Perhaps. But I simply couldn't resist.

I'm done now. :)

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