Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 20:26:48 +0000 From: James Raynard <jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-share@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/misc uk.phone uk.postcodes inter.phone Message-ID: <19971217202648.06343@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199712170105.BAA27803@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:05:10AM %2B0000 References: <19971216214054.62656@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199712170105.BAA27803@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:05:10AM +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > > I'm not going to complain if someone wants to remove uk.*, na.phone > and inter.phone, but I don't see why the Americans among us should > get all the attention :-) I have some sympathy with that last statement :-) Well, inter.phone is for phone codes outside (North) America. In any case, *.phone are only in there because they were inherited from BSD (along with a number of other files of somewhat doubtful utility). The info is definitely useful, but too specialised and detailed to be of interest to more than a small percentage of the user community. Unlike timezones, it's not needed to get the system working, so I would suggest making a package out of it, rather than filling up the base distribution with a complete set of phone codes for every country that has a FreeBSD user (if we have the UK, we should really have France, Germany, Japan, Russia, etc and if we have all the "big" countries we should have all the "small" ones as well [1]). Just MHO. [1] "Big" and "small" referring to my guess at a country's share of the user base, rather than geographical/political/economic/cultural importance. -- In theory, theory is better than practice. In practice, it isn't. James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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