Lina Pezzella wrote:
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This thread brings up a very good point. There are little children using our distribution, and they should not be exposed to dirty words such as the one being disputed in this thread. There are other packages that are also questionable too. "BitchX" comes to mind, and "Evolution" is on the top of my die-package-die list. We certainly wouldn't want little children asking about that, now would we?
In light of the above, I suggest that in the interest of being sure not to offend anyone, we remove the three aforementioned packages and any others that might be offensive. It's not censorship, it's decency.
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What you are suggesting is considered a slippery slope. If you remove any packages based on the beliefs of a few, you'll eventually have to remove a few more as others with different beliefs show up and announce their offense. This will go on until our genetically modified crops start using the Internet and announce that they're offended by the word kernel on behalf of their corn brethren and there goes your entire OS.
The only way I could see around this would be to have the mirroring system be given a list of potentially offensive names and have the sync only grab them if the admins set the system to allow such packages. (Of course, some parents will still bitchx because their brainfucked kids edited the setting and we'll end up having to install credit card # generators so we can put in a sequence of digits that supposedly prove we're adults to authorize the downloads instead. The more ambitious will just write one themselves, as the LUN formula isn't that hard a concept to follow.)
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