Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:44:35 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <5A1AFD83.8000503@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <201711261559.vAQFxqQD049551@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <201711261559.vAQFxqQD049551@slippy.cwsent.com>
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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/datfiles.
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.
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