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Date:      Fri, 2 Jun 2000 12:49:50 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles gerrold.limerick
Message-ID:  <20000602124950.I11843@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <39377F39.C4408D36@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:32:41PM %2B0900
References:  <200006012033.NAA34150@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000602004001.A228@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <39377F39.C4408D36@newsguy.com>

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On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 06:32:41PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> 
> Fortune(6) only searches for stuff on it's own share directory. Sure,
> one can change fortune(6) to accomodate for that, but since we _are_
> expanding our fortunes database, why make this particular one into a
> port?
> 

A sensible way of doing this would be to have fortune also look in
/usr/local/share/fortune and include any databases from there.  People
could then maintain different ports of fortunes.  Is it worth the effort?

Joe

(I'm not volunteering.)


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