On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:32:01AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:42:18 +0300, KL (Kalev) wrote: > > > >> On 08/29/2011 02:54 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > >> > > >> > I'd like to remove: > >> > > >> > ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates > >> > > >> > command from rawhide (F17). IMHO this crazy command is used by very > >> > very small minority of Fedora users. > >> > > >> > Comments? > >> > >> Please do. This isn't really something that should be dragged in for > >> every single Fedora installation as part of the util-linux package. If > >> someone actually misses the command, it can always be resurrected later > >> in a subpackage. > > > > Someone? A single Discordian follower already, for example? Perhaps that > > person will volunteers as the maintainer of a separate package then? > > Or wait, if it's just one, why include it in the distribution? > > > > Based on > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism#Discordian_calendar > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius > > > > the ddate command and its manual's level of relationship to a religion (or > > a joke religion) enters a grey area with regard to the packaging policies: > > > > | Some examples of content which are not permissable: > > | > > | Comic book art files > > | Religious texts > > | ... > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Code_Vs_Content > > The Julian and Gregorian calendars are also of religious origin. OTOH including tiny programs that remind people that real religious belief is nonsense has to be a good thing. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
