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Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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>> i just wish they would use a more grown-up name for it: |
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>> there does not appear to be a package named 'bf', |
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>> so could that perhaps be used as the name in Gentoo ? |
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>> after all, the whole idea is to be as short & sweet as possible (smile). |
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> What defines something as "grown-up" anyway? Besides, who are you to |
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> question somebody else's values? If the author wants to call it that, |
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> he/she has every right in the world. To shorten it to "bf" would |
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> really be censorship, which I would really prefer gentoo not resort to. |
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> Not only that, but let's say Joe user is looking for brainfuck |
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> packages in portage. Do we really want to cause our users the pain of |
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> searching through portage just so they can find out we censored |
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> brainfuck related items to bf? That would be silly. |
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> Steve |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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You could name the package with bf to keep the package name short for |
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ease of those manually typing the emerge command. Include brainfuck in |
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the description so an esearch for it returns any bf packages. |
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Now we just need someone to make a language named bullshit so people |
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will still know what they're getting when it gets abbreviated "bs". |
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