>The mission you have chosen for yourself, then, is to identify all those >things in the Debian distribution that are not constitutive of an >operating system.
That is a major part of the work of a Debian Developer, and the ftp-master team. Packages are evaluated for eligibility to enter the distribution all the time, we had times where every new binary package was frowned upon due to resource constraints on the archive. If I uploaded fortunes-natureshadow because I think my favourite quotes are worth being shipped with an operating system, I am pretty sure it would get rejected. There is no reason to handle fortunes-off any different. -nik
