Re: Why are these packages in Debian?
>> On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 21:21:09 +0200,
>> Nikos <nikos@altern.org> said:
> You are right, the Bible, or the collected works of Shakespeare,
> are important pieces for culture. But they have nothing to do in an
> operating system!
Neither does fortune. Or vi. (We have emacs already) (;-), for
the humour impaired)
> Why to privilege one religion or political opinion? How to
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__> apt-cache show display-dhammapada
Package: display-dhammapada
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 264
Maintainer: David Starner <dvdeug@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.21-3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4)
Recommends: xbase-clients
Filename: pool/main/d/display-dhammapada/display-dhammapada_0.21-3_i386.deb
Size: 60148
MD5sum: 89f265e7af2fb01c02459cc7b91ea52c
Description: Displays verses from the Dhammapada.
Displays a random verse (a dhammapada) from an English translation of the
Dhammapada. It works similarly to fortune, so you can put it in your shell
startup script.
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Satisfied that we care for for more than one religion?
> distinguish "useful" (as David Nusinow said) or useless texts? It's
> simply impossible. So you will have to collect lots and lots of
> books to avoid "Discrimination Against Persons or Groups" (as
> written in the Debian Free Software Guidelines), and that's not the
> duty of an operating sytem.
Why do you think that the bible does not belong to an OS, but
games do? Or fortune cookies? Or vi?
manoj
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