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RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 21:11:30 -0600
- Subject: RE: Obscene content in cygwin file.
Jon Lambert wrote:
> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > Perhaps. Could somebody tell me the single-best reason for
> providing
> > the profanity at all?
> >
> > Hello?
> >
> > Anybody?
>
> Apparently some distros have split off the package into parts like
> fortune - the program with no data
> fortune-min - the quotes
> fortune-off - the stuff that'd make a sailor blush
>
> fortune-mod-boh
> fortune-mod-homer
> fortune-mod-bible-1.0
>
Really?
> I'd of course prefer the following packaging:
> fortune
> fortune-min
> fortune-mod-bible-1.0
>
> But not just because it would be amusing to see the half of
> the unoffended suddenly start squealing about pulling it or
> encrypting it.
Well, I'd prefer a similar packaging:
fortune
fortune-min (what I thought I installed)
fortune-mod-homer
fortune-mod-bible-1.0
However, I *would* include mod-bible-1.0 for the sole purpose of triggering
the howls of "WAAAAAAAA!!! I'M IN JUNIOR HIGH!!! I WANT DIRTY LIMERICKS
(TEEEHEEEHEEEE!) NOT BIBLE!!!!".
Yeah, I know: www.geocities.com/latenitegoddess/hellwhenidie11.12.04.wav
;-)
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Gary R. Van Sickle
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