Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

["D. Wokan" <wokan@cox.net>]

Stephen P. Becker wrote:

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

Now we just need someone to make a language named bullshit so people 
will still know what they're getting when it gets abbreviated "bs".
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