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
| ...
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