On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 10:16 -0600, Tim Flink wrote: > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:47:42 +0000 > Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:33 +0000, Leigh Scott wrote: > > > > I don't know what IANAL means but sounds rude... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 at 00:14, Fabio Valentini > > > > <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > LOL :-) > > > > > > IANAL=I am not a lawyer > > > > you may install wtf [1] (part of bsd-games package) and query > > aboutthis acronym [2] > > > > [1] > > dnf install /usr/bin/wtf > > > > [2] > > wtf IANAL > > > > IANAL: I am not a lawyer > > I did not know that was a thing but I'm happy to know it now. > > To save some time in case someone else is curious and ends up going > down the same rabbit hole I did: > > There is a maintained upstream for bsd-games [1] that has effectively > forked the old codebase and trimmed out some of the bits which are > not > quite games including wtf (the readme says "outdated acronym lookup. > We > have Google now."). However, the fedora package doesn't appear to > built > from the new upstream, still using 2.17 as a base which still has wtf > instead of the new upstream's 3.x. > > [1] https://github.com/msharov/bsd-games > > The ftp site that is often credited for being the upstream url for > bsd-games [2] isn't working for me at the moment but I don't know if > that's just temporary. > > [2] ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/games/ > > There is a sourceforge project [3] which mirrors NetBSD's updates to > the wtf acronym database. That acronym database in NetBSD [4] is > still > regularly updated and the sourceforge project is still seeing > updates. > > [3] https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdwtf/ > [4] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/acronyms > Hi, wtf was updated to wtf version 20200829 a few weeks ago I use the files from https://sourceforge.net/projects/bsdwtf/, which is updated by the person who updates http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/acronyms Due to the lack of time, bsdwtf is still in the bsd-games package. Thanks for letting me know about this new upstream , but the only thing I want to keep from the bsd-games package is wtf, because it is super useful when someone writes an acronym that I don't know yet and I also think acronyms is a super useful tool to communicate :). Best regards, -- Sérgio M. B. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
