Am Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2003, 21:52:32 Uhr MET, schrieb Leon Brooks: > No? Posting as a non-Catholic, it does look like you have a chip on your > shoulder.
Hey, I even consider the Catholic church as temporary allies against the current war rage. > Regardless, there is another force which should stop it from going in: > respect. Unless you *need* to have something which is potentially offensive, > don't have it. Mandrake is a respectful and respectable distribution. Sure, you can consider stuff like joke man pages and fortune cookies as not important, but where will this end? Maybe the next time someone will complain about swearing in kernel-source: [goetz@klama goetz]$ find /usr/src/linux/ -type f|xargs fgrep fuck fgrep: /usr/src/linux/3rdparty/atmelwlan/pcmf502_revd/.Makefile.swp: Permission denied /usr/src/linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl: If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/mtrr.c:/* Some BIOS's are fucked and don't set all MTRRs the same! */ /usr/src/linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/mtrr.c:/* Some BIOS's are fucked and don't set all MTRRs the same! */ /usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c: blkdev_dequeue_request(req); /* task can fuck it up GTL */ /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/drm/drmP.h:extern int DRM(release_fuck)(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp); /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/pci/cmd640.c: * These chips are basically fucked by design, and getting this driver /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/macsonic.c: fuck did SONIC_BUS_SCALE come from, and what was it supposed /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c:/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/sunhme.c: /* This card is _fucking_ hot... */ /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up. /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/NCR53C9x.c: /* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c: * how bad the target and/or ESP fucks things up. /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c: * phase things. We don't want to fuck directly with /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c: /* Be careful, we could really get fucked during synchronous /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.h:/* Am I fucking pedantic or what? */ /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/aci.c:/* The four ACI command types are fucked up. [-: /usr/src/linux/fs/jffs/intrep.c: don't fuck up. This is why we have [schnipp] > If you want to set up an easyURPM website called PornDrake or > CussDrake (or perhaps something more direct) from which to > distribute stuff like funny-but-offensive fortunes, man-pages, > wallpapers etc, then I'm all for it, because I believe the choice > should always be available, but the main distro is no more the place > for it than the user manual for your digital camera is. ATM whe have the comfortable solution of moving everything offensive to PLF, but there have been complaints about PLF too, e.g. about the logo. -- G�tz Waschk <> master of computer science <> University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key --> Logout Fascism! <--
