> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:47:40 -0500, JC (Jon) wrote: > >> >> The Julian and Gregorian calendars are also of religious origin. >> > >> > Apples and oranges. >> > >> > Do you find anything like in the "SEE ALSO" section of "man ddate" >> also >> > in "man date"? > >> That may be (both are human constructs, it's like say "hey, that's made >> up >> word!", but no, I don't. My point is simply that while it is extremely >> silly code, it is in fact code provided by upstream. It's still >> maintained, is of a valid license, and I don't see a valid reason to >> break >> with upstream here. If you can convince upstream to split it out or >> drop >> it, great. If not, and there isn't a compelling disk space or security >> argument, I really don't see why this should be dropped. I'm looking >> for >> a clear example of demonstrable harm. It's 14k of silliness, not a >> rootkit. > > With that point of view, it's probably impossible to convince you. > I won't try. I just encourage Karel to get rid of ddate somehow. > > A "valid reason" IMO is to build a base distribution, a product -- our > product -- which does not consist of "extremely silly code" and which > does not advertise dubious religions. Not even with links as found in the > manual. There are several scenarios where we divert from upstream due > to various circumstances. > Sure, for sufficient reasons. > Whether it's harmful to distribute ddate, I don't know. Isn't it enough > reason to not offer something because it's considered silly/crazy crap? > Or if it doesn't make sense to ship it as part of a default OS > environment? > I'm not suggesting ddate is mission-critical, I just want reasons for it's removal or re-packaging to be well thought-out, not simply "gosh, I don't sue that, so. . .". Otherwise we'll start dropping games. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Discordian_calendar > > | Most common Linux operating system-distributions have the command ddate > | to show the current Discordian date. > > Strange people these Linux people. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar#Implementations > > | ddate, a program that prints the current date in the Discordian > calendar, > | is part of the util-linux package of basic system utilities.[6] As such, > | it is included in nearly all Linux distributions, despite some > | resistance.[7] There are many other programs with similar functionality. > > -> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=149321 > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
