The future of fortune(6)

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 19:19:45 UTC 2017


hi,

Pardon me, but it's 2017 and the 4.3BSD system index isn't an immutable bible.

As a general push to packaging things in general, turning fortune into
a package seems like some low hanging fruit.



-adrian


On 24 November 2017 at 08:47, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
> fortune(6) is listed in ring bound 4.3BSD System Index.
> Butchering on personal whim without prior agreement seems abuse.
> BSD should be [temporarily] reverted & the commit bit suspended,
> pending commiters' peer review of an un-authorised deletion.
> Then decide what what to do with fortune.
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
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