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On 10/01/2013 01:07 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: |
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> Mirror restricting something like sudo because of the optional and |
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> properly named offensive use flag is rediculous. Either this kind of |
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> thing is okay and it stays, or we won't allow it and the flag should be |
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> removed. Please, sanity first, mirror restricting something with |
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> offensive language just hurts user experience for the (in this case |
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> core) package. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zero |
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We need USE=offensive for the linux kernel. I just grepped the source |
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tree for George Carlin's seven dirty words [1] and found three of seven |
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use liberally in there. |
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The point being that "dirty words" are not offensive in the right |
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context and have long been part of a comedy tradition. I don't want to |
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see Gentoo, or human society, sanitized of everything that might be |
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found offensive in some context in the name of protecting people's |
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sensibilities in all contexts. |
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words |
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