This may not be the right audience, but I'm very displeased with FreeBSD 13 changing the traditional /etc/motd logic and turning it into what I see as over-engineered triviality which contradicts the unix philosophy. I don't know where is the right place to express my thoughts about it, sorry if this isn't one of them.
IMO, if someone wanted to make MOTD more generic/flexible - they should have written a port to automate that, rather than breaking half a century of unix motd implementations and deviating further from all other unix-like platforms; for what though? for motd? because they didn't want to periodically change a config in /etc/? I don't understand this, and until I do this will continue to seem whimsical and unnecessary.
Does anyone have a rationalization for changing something so simple yet fundamental at the cost of half century of unix lineage and interchangeability?
IMO, if someone wanted to make MOTD more generic/flexible - they should have written a port to automate that, rather than breaking half a century of unix motd implementations and deviating further from all other unix-like platforms; for what though? for motd? because they didn't want to periodically change a config in /etc/? I don't understand this, and until I do this will continue to seem whimsical and unnecessary.
Does anyone have a rationalization for changing something so simple yet fundamental at the cost of half century of unix lineage and interchangeability?