On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:40:16PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:26:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:36:53PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Not sure if the highly obscene limericks (/usr/share/fortune/limerick) >>>are meant to be in the cygwin distro... >> >>Wow. I think I vaguely recall that something like this was in fortune >>but, if I thought it was a good idea a couple of years ago, I have >>obviously grown more prudish since then. >> >>AFAICT, our fortune maintainer is long gone so I guess we're looking >>for a volunteer who would like to take up this package. I don't know >>about Corinna but I don't like having this type of thing in the >>distribution. >> >>Corinna, you originally released this. Where did you find it? Did you >>just package it up directly from a BSD distribution? > >Reading /usr/doc/fortune-1.8/Notes and /usr/doc/fortune-1.8/README >would imply that limericks should be limericks-o (and rot13'd). Then >it will only be actually accessed if you use fortune -a or fortune -o. > >I'd be willing to maintain it, but haven't maintained a package before >or even read the information about how to, so it would take me a little >bit to release a new version. > >I too would be interested in knowing where the package came from. It >doesn't seem to say anywhere (except that the Notes and README have >NetBSD rcs tags).
FWIW, it's in the FreeBSD CVS repository: cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs co src/games/fortune may check this out. I don't know for sure since I haven't updated this directory in a while. Maintaining this should not be hard. I suspect it may build OOTB. Thanks for considering it. cgf -- 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/
