On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Changes by: st...@cvs.openbsd.org   2021/07/27 05:55:36
> > 
> > Modified files:
> >     sysutils/bat   : Makefile 
> > 
> > Log message:
> > set sysutils/bat to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=${LP64_ARCHS}, one of the 147
> > dependencies (sys-info) has a 32 vs 64 bit issue when checking
> > the number of CPUs online
> 
> Wait, a cat with 147 dependencies?  Looks like it's a rabbit after all!
> At least there can be no doubt that it inhabits a rabbit hole, doesn't it?
> 
> Besides, isn't a program that stops working once your machine has
> more than four billion CPUs utterly useless in the 31st century?
> 
> If it didn't constantly trip up otherwise busy porters, this port
> would be a really good laugh.
> 
> *Looking at the calendar*
> No, it's unlikely to be the Easter bunny.
> We are not that close to Apil 1.

And to think that Rob Pike once wrote a paper "cat -v considered harmful"
since it added unnecessary functionality to cat, whose only job is
to catenate files...

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