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Intermittens written submissions / Re: A few Dingo Works
« Last post by PlacidDingo on May 13, 2013, 08:55:02 AM »Also, the text from here is good for use; http://placiddingo.com/?p=331
The command ddate has been REMOVED from util-linux. You can find it here:
https://github.com/bo0ts/ddate
Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 65th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3178
The Emperor Norton Utilities is a collectionm of Discordian software. It is the software equivalent of Discordian sainthood. The utilities include mainstays such as ddate, M-x dissociate, and chef, as well as anything you may care to nominate. Indeed, it can contain entire operating systems (such as Linux) and even hardware devices (such as the software-controlled Amiga power light). The documentation for this software consists of the Principia Discordia, the Ludwig Plutonium Hymnbook, Kibo's signature and that sign in California which reads STOP CASTING POROSITY", as well as other sacred tracts too numerous to mention.(M-x dissociate is a script for transforming any text into potentially humorous garbage. Chef does pretty much the same thing, but in Swedish. Kibo is someone worth looking up, if you haven't heard about him)
> People with more traditional moral values might not
> appreciate a reference to or advertisement for this movement
> being present on their system. However, because it is in
> util-linux, they will not be able to selectively remove it
> (unless they write a script that is to be run after every
> upgrade).
I for one will not stand for this. I personally use ddate, I use it in
some scripts, I know other people do the same, and I know some Debian
developers would be annoyed if ddate was removed. There are even programs
that use ddate, e.g. freecraft and the games that use its engine.
I will be very sad if Debian can't include ddate because an imaginary
user with "traditional moral values" means more than real users.