Re: ITP: maniac -- let fortune display debian package descriptions
On Wednesday 25 October 2000 11:02, zhaoway wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> maniac will generate fortune datafiles from /var/lib/dpkg/available,
> which records all available packages information on a debian gnu
> system. the output is suitable for fortune to display on a random
> basis. thus could hopefully ease the life of the package-seeking
> maniacs. (and i know many of the freshmeat lovers belong to this
> category!)
This idea isn't bad, and the script works cool. I am working on a wrapper to
fortune, that displays tips every time you login. The only difference to
fortune will be i18n-support, and that the number and file from which the tip
is choosen, is also displayed. And that it is called "tip" instead of
"fortune". I intendet to contain information about packages, too, but more in
a form like:
If you don't like emacs, try nedit, a nice graphical editor.
Learning vi will let you have an editor, which you can use even through
7bit-serial lines, and which is installed on virtually every system.
Use user-de for having settings for german-speaking-users enabled.
Maybe you are interested in helping describing packages in this way? :)
Daniel Migowski
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