Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:53:56 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes Message-ID: <20050206072356.GH49637@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20050202181848.B1D6F5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <xzpzmynje4n.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20050202181848.B1D6F5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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--uJrvpPjGB3z5kYrA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wednesday, 2 February 2005 at 10:18:48 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> From: des@des.no (=3D?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=3D) >> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:16:40 +0100 >> Sender: owner-cvs-all@freebsd.org >> >> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>> Modified files: >>> games/fortune/datfiles fortunes >>> Log: >>> Removed 1695 fortunes also found in fortunes2. >> >> I'd vote for simply merging the two. > > I'll admit to being old, but at one time fortune2 was supposed to be for > longer fortunes while fortune was for one or two line entries. At one > time fortune2 had some rather long entries. This is less important now > than it was when we were (OK, I was) logging in on an ASR33 and it took > 8 seconds for a full line of text. > > Do we really want to merge them? (Probably) But should we think about > keeping fortune as a separate file with all messages from fortune2 that > are less than about 200 characters. After all, some folks are still on > fairly slow links. I don't think that anybody is on such a slow link that this makes a big difference any more. If they are, they've probably disabled fortune on login anyway. I'm in favour of merging them. I'm also in favour of adding your historical anecdote (which I didn't know about :-). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --uJrvpPjGB3z5kYrA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCBcYMIubykFB6QiMRAlXOAJ9RMEpTHUHOo0Y3Nv1FOQhcNtZjXQCgiFiU kJLtAo2VkclZODg0abhcRO4= =cYYu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uJrvpPjGB3z5kYrA--
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