Fortune Program -Moving->RE: Wanda is broken

[Jim Cornette]

Senthil_OR at Dell.com wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Alan Cox
>>
>>We don't ship fortune and haven't for some time - Wanda needs 
>>reconfiguring
>>
> 
> 
> This brings up a very important topic for discussion.
> Namely why is Fedora not shipping fortune. Agreed there might be some
> licensing issues.
> But a program like fortune could be easily written and licensed under
> GPL.
> And I guess few will be already available.
> 
> Just check with the number of .sig quotes in various mailing lists.
> There you see the usage of fortune cookie.
> 
> It's a useful program and I would like to vote for its inclusion with
> Fedora, so that users don't have the trouble to download it separately.
> Please provide your suggestions and how can we go about.
> 
> Thanks!
> Senthil
> 
> 
> 

I'm getting a bit confused to whether Fedora Core and Fedora Extras are 
as integrated as I thought was the goal. Fedora Extras recieved programs 
that used to be included in RHL releases and packages that used to be 
included in Core. There are a lot of great programs in Fedora Extras. I 
thought that Fedora Extras was an extension to Core.

Anyway, programs that are in core should be revised to not depend on 
packages in Extras. Using the same scheme that the screensavers use 
without fortune being installed should be implemented in wanda and other 
programs. Leaving fortune-mod in Extras is fine with me.

Coming up with another program that does similar things as fortune-mod 
should not be too hard to do. I believe the political correctness for 
some of the fortunes and having to battle with offensive to some people 
sayings was not worth the trouble to maintain the program in core. (RHL)

Jim

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