On Saturday 10 September 2011 20:17:24 Nelson Marques wrote:
Wrong, we're talking about a package, packaging rules...
2011/9/10 todd rme <toddrme2178@gmail.com>:
dmueller@suse.dedmueller@suse.dedmueller@suse.deOn Sat, Sep 10, 2011
at 8:56 PM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
What do you mean?
I'm not sure if this is the answer you are looking for... but... as I see it... a project/community like openSUSE is meant to be a pluri-cultural community, this means we have people from all believes and races tagging along for something we all believe, free open source software...
While it is legit to have such a rule to prevent openSUSE to be associated with 'religion' or 'politics' as an organization and community, which I totally subscribe, the place for such a rule would be in trademarks, logo's, official communication, forums and netiquette.
I don't think such statement should be in the packaging guidelines... lets be honest... can anyone ensure to me that packages like 'fortune' don't have any quotations with religious or political origins? Has someone ever pulled out the ban hammer on them? Why this one in particular?
I refered to Kristallnacht because many historians have pointed it as the first step to what would end up being the Holocaust. The traditional image most people have (at least that I know) is the one of burning books which became forbiden. Really from that perspective doesn't seem much different from what some people are trying to achieve.
Other distros have the package and no drama, no one seems to feel offended, but we have to be different? I'm sorry but I feel this difference bring us to the negative side of things...
I think all people agree it shouldn't be a part of the default openSUSE install, but going from there to banish the package from OBS... come on... is this really the true face of openSUSE ?.
NM
Let me see if I understand this correctly: You are comparing a policy of trying to avoid controversial topics...with the HOLOCAUST!? Wow.
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What this ACTUALLY boils down to is making a mountain out of a poorly placed molehill . Pete with mind intact -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 08:39 up 7 days 14:09, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org