Package review request: OpenBSD calendar(1) command

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 18 18:53:33 UTC 2009


Am Mittwoch, den 18.02.2009, 09:13 -0600 schrieb Jason L Tibbitts III:
> >>>>> "CW" == Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> CW> Way to generic IMHO. If this is going to set a precedent, it will
> CW> be hard to tell other maintainers, why /usr/bin/email [1] is a bad
> CW> idea.
> 
> Has /usr/bin/email been an expected part of many Unix systems for
> twenty years as /usr/bin/calendar has?

No, it hasn't. Maybe you are right and we could make an exception from
the rules, but I think "this has been around for a long time" is not a
good reason. If we followed that approach we could stop making changes
at all.

Christoph




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