Tips

[edscott wilson garcia]

El mi? 23-07-2003 a las 09:33, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> On Wed, 23, Jul 2003, The Matt wrote:
> 
> > > > Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work for me. Whatever I do, it
> > > > complains about missing "fortune".
> > > > 
> > > > As I agree that "fortune" is needed to get fortune messages :) I
> > > > hardly understand why forture is required when "tips" is selected, and
> > > > even why fortune missing prevents xfce4-tips to display tips at all...
> > > 
> > > I assume it uses fortune-style .dat file to store the tips and uses
> > > fortune to display them. This is acceptable reuse of available tools
> > > IMHO.
> > > 
> > > On RH, fortune is installed in /usr/games/fortune which is not in the
> > > $PATH. Add it to $PATH and it works.
> > 
> > Uhh...I'm guessing you've been upgrading your Red Hat, right?  That is
> > because if you read the RH 9 Release Notes you will see:
> > 
> > The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Linux 9:
> > ...
> > fortune-mod ??? Unclear copyright status
> > 
> > And, in the Severn release notes, there is no mention of fortune-mod
> > being back.
> > 
> > Thus, xfce4-tips will bork on all new RH 9+ installations, no matter
> > what a user does.  Unless you want to distribute fortune-mod with Xfce4,
> > a different program will be needed.
> 
> Ok, I'll find another way with 4.2, but for now using fortune is the
> most elegant way.

There's always a more elegant or better way to do something ;-)

"The sweetest song remains yet to be sung"
   Walt Whitman

> 
> Benedikt