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Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc
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Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:17:18 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
> Be careful about that! Some of the humor files are in separate files
> because programs refer to them.
I'm well aware of this. Grepping in the elisp to make sure no dangling
references would be left behind was absolutely part of the procedure I
had in mind.
> I suggest deleting these files, which were put here before we had a web site.
>
> COOKIES
> copying.paper
> echo.msg
> INTERVIEW
> JOKES (but save the EMACS acronyms)
> MAILINGLISTS
> MOTIVATION
> publicsuffix.txt
> SERVICE
>
> We can replace copying.paper, MAILINGLISTS and SERVICE by URLs.
>
> We can also delete celebacy.1 and sex.6,
> as well as the program meese.el which uses them.
> I doubt many users will remember Attorney General Meese.
>
> condom.1 can also be deleted; it is not actually related to those
> two files, but without them, why put it here?
> (Though the reference to setiud is funny.)
What shall we do about future-bug? I think that is much too funny to be
lost to posterity (take a bow, kfogel) but if we're going to exile JOKES
it should go too.
I guess a lot of this stuff can go to the EmacsWiki humor section.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/09
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Samuel El-Borai, 2014/01/09
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Samuel El-Borai, 2014/01/09
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/09
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Richard Stallman, 2014/01/10
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/10
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Ulrich Mueller, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Glenn Morris, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, David Kastrup, 2014/01/11
- Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/01/11