Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:11:06 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, lidl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of fortune(6) Message-ID: <CANCZdfoRb2ohYRSwYO96R3qujGXMMD2BkL%2BixsE1ZpWkCodTNA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7326690.xrhihQoxKt@ralph.baldwin.cx> References: <66D39828-ADBA-4973-BEB8-B2F6657E9996@FreeBSD.org> <6ba033f3-82ce-da58-1720-623fed180479@FreeBSD.org> <7326690.xrhihQoxKt@ralph.baldwin.cx>
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On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:38 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 03:01:17 PM Kurt Lidl wrote: > > On 11/22/17 11:29 AM, Benno Rice wrote: > > > I would like people=E2=80=99s opinion on which of the following two p= aths we > should take: > > > > > > 1) Complete removal of fortune and freebsd-tips, remove its usage fro= m > the default .login/.profile files. > > > > > > 2) Reworking fortune(6) to remove the offensive fortune flag and make > freebsd-tips the default, possibly by symlinking it as > /usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes. > > > > Of these options, only #2 is approximately correct. > > > > I think just leaving the code as-is, and symlinking the freebsd-tips to > > be the default fortune datafile is the correct course of action. > > > > Removing the offensive flag handling dictates policy towards users > > of the program. If someone wants to add their own offensive datafile > > to their system, the code ought to allow them to select it. > > Agreed. I think removing the default datfiles so that someone can mainta= in > a port is fine, but we should leave freebsd-tips and the tool. When > the -o database was moved out of base we didn't remove the -o option, but > instead extended the tool to work with string files in /usr/local. The > current state is fine. The drama and lost time has always been about the > 4BSD datfiles, never about freebsd-tips or the tool itself, so the issue = is > resolved. > I like this plan. Let's call it consensus and implement. Warner
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