On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:41:02PM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Could somebody package these? (I definitely don't have time to start yet > another project right now - as this would be my first Debian pkg, it > would be a lot more time consuming for me as for others. fortunes-debian > would be great, though). [ good hints snipped ] > We'd need to collect some more to justify a package here - but I think > there's a lot trivia knowledge that an experienced Debian user doesn't > think about, but can solve a serious problem for a beginner. > > The plan could be: > - collect hints > - package, upload > - add a conditional call to 'fortune debian' in the default > .bash_profile for interactive shells, and add something similar to the > default *dm greeters... (I can imagine some difficulties here - a lot of > people wouldn't want this, I guess...) I'm willing to package fortunes-debian, at the very least, if nobody else has already grabbed it (though I agree that actually packaging it should probably wait until we have more than 5 hints). I think the default greetings might want for more discussion, though I personally like the idea, but simply having the hints available as a fortune DB seems like an astoundingly good idea to me (and, FWIW, a lot of folks get a new fortune on every login shell on some OSes - FreeBSD, for example - and I think one of the hints should be how to turn it off, or change it to a 'normal' fortune DB). -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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