On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 10:16 -0600, Tim Flink wrote:
On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:47:42 +0000
Sérgio Basto <sergio(a)serjux.com> 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quite games including wtf (the readme says "outdated acronym lookup.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.