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Re: "purity" package

bruce@va.debian.org writes:

> This program might be of fleeting interest to 14-year-olds.

I haven't looked at the purity package, so I don't have any opinion
yet, but...

> I think "purity" and the offensive fortunes should be in a separate
> distribution. Call it "offensive" or something. Let people who want to
> carry it do so.

I think this is a dangerous line to be drawing.  If this stuff will
actually get us in legal trouble, fine, but otherwise, I'd say stick
it in a separate directory in main like "risque" and forget about it.
I think the postinst question that the fortune package uses is more
than enough to keep these things off sensitive systems.

> I'm all for your first ammendment freedoms, but I don't see how carrying
> this stuff improves the functionality of the Debian system.

Call me adolescent, but I certainly find *some* of the "offensive"
fortunes quite amusing, and they don't offend me at all.  The others I
just harrumph at and ignore.  To my mind "fortune -o" is certainly not
any less of an "improvement to the functionality of the distribution"
than something like xeyes -- both are amusing, and useless.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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