Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:48:05 -0700 From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions on termcap suggestions Message-ID: <v064v0434a.4v0@mail.opusnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20050724081711.I7429@prime.gushi.org> (Dan Mahoney's message of "Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:52:20 -0400 (EDT)") References: <20050724081711.I7429@prime.gushi.org>
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> I'm sending this through so someone may find it in the future and > save themself some effort. Good of you to try to document it; I wish I knew where else it could go. I wonder if there should be a wiki-type knowledge base for things like that. > Related: In searching around I've also found a teeny tiny little > program called lpansi that allows you to cat a file to your local > printer. Shouldn't something like this be in the base, or in ports? > I found things like birthstone references and what certain flowers > mean in /usr/share/misc, why not a useful "print" command? It's easy to guess why not: the developers who've paid their dues (or otherwise got their clout), and so control the contents of the base OS, haven't been convinced to put it in. You could write a PR proposing the addition, but you'd have better luck volunteering to make a port for it. As for "cruft" in the OS, a PR on the subject would be more likely to encourage some cleanup than any comments in -questions. Removing cruft can often be more work than adding it, so it tends to take plenty of encouragement, or volunteer work.
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