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.
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