Re: Bug#304266: ITP: sdate -- never ending september date
On Apr 12, 2005 at 18:01, Ron Johnson praised the llamas by saying:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:10 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> > > Re: sean finney in <[🔎] 20050412115446.GA22424@seanius.net>
> > > > > > Is there any real-life use for this program?
> > > > >
> > > > > No.
> > > >
> > > > then please don't put it in debian.
> > >
> > > Which of the other games in Debian do serve a purpose?
> >
> > Games serve a purpose: they entertain the user. What is the purpose of
> > sdate?
>
> Entertain the user, of course, in a things-were-better-back-in-
> the-good-old-days kind of way.
>
> Sort of like Edith and Archie singing "Those Were The Days".
>
I suspect most games entertain the user for more than three seconds.
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David Pashley
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