Bug 25425

Summary:	fortune-mod should be renamed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bill Atkins <gentoobugs>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	1.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bill Atkins 2003-07-28 06:37:48 UTC

The name fortune-mod is not intuitive.  Users should be able to emerge fortune.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Emerge fortune

Actual Results:  
No package found

Expected Results:  
Installed fortune-mod

Comment 1 Zhen Lin 2003-07-28 07:33:41 UTC

agreed. What inspired them to name it fortune-mod?

Comment 2 Christian Jiresjö 2003-07-28 11:47:48 UTC

fortune and fortune-mod is not the same software, even if they are related to each other through purpose and potentially codebase, which you might notice if you visit the url where the file is gotten from. 
Personally i think fortune-mod (named so because it is fortune modified) should stay named fortune-mod and fortune should point to fortune-0.2 available from the same place or another software actually named fortune. 
But im not the maintainer of this software or ebuild so its just my opinion. And if it makes a large gain in portage usability then why not.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-07-29 20:53:40 UTC

if you want app-games/fortune please make an ebuild ... i think Christian summed up the situation perfectly, thanks :)