Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: k2.mikee.ath.cx: mikee set sender to mikee@mikee.ath.cx using -f Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:39:20 -0600 From: Mike To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fortune maintainer wanted and question for Corinna (was Re: Obscene content in cygwin file.) Message-ID: <20050107193920.GE19126@mikee.ath.cx> References: <9BF6AA394294934FAC2547E5A6E0DE15304735@exactn1-cbr.nexus.csiro.au> <20050106042608.GB7317@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050106044016.GA2100@efn.org> <20050106044735.GA7950@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20050106074355.GA3288@efn.org> <20050107092839.GB2588@efn.org> <20050107114035.GE23589@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The Math Forum X-IsSubscribed: yes On Fri, 07 Jan 2005, Peter A. Castro might have said: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 7 01:28, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > > Right now I'm looking at the debian packages instead: > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortune-mod > > > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/fortunes-bofh-excuses > > > > > > which generate 5 packages: fortune-mod (the binaries), > > > fortunes-min, fortunes, fortunes-off, and fortunes-bofh-excuses. > > > > > > If these look ok to me, do you see any problem with using them instead? > > > (There are also a lot of non-English data files packages that I'm not > > > going to mess with at the moment.) > > > > Personally I'd rather see only one fortune package. Using the -o > > plus rot13 technique should really do it. > > I'm with Corinna here. Fortune does not warrant 5 packages, or even 3. > One package is sufficient. ROT13 and mark the limericks with -o and move > on. Deviating from an already established convention for packaging a > given program is just asking for trouble, and you're artificially making > more work than is necessary. K.I.S.S. !! Since you must *ask* for the 'rude' version of fortune (fortune -o) before you get any of the alleged offensive material, then what's the problem? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/