removal of share/dict/freebsd

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Mon Oct 30 04:36:02 UTC 2017


On 29 October 2017 at 02:11, Antoine Brodin <antoine at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Does anyone object to removing the file share/dict/freebsd ?  It has
>> not been functionally updated since 2005, and was last touched at all
>> in 2014.
>>
>> While I could add several more terms of the list, there are better
>> sources of dictionary files available now, and user don't rely on this
>> particular source for anything.
>
> Hi,
>
> What is the benefit of the removal,  aside from breaking look(1) and
> some regression tests?

Not having old mostly-useless stuff laying around.



-- 
Eitan Adler


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