misc/jive deleted

Grzegorz Junka list1 at gjunka.com
Sat Oct 22 13:03:45 UTC 2016


On 22/10/2016 11:31, Alphons van Werven wrote:
> andrew clarke wrote:
>
>> Is this the first time a port has been deleted for being "offensive"?
> There used to be "offensive" (a term to be taken rather loosely in this
> case) fortune cookies, but they got kicked out somewhere in 9.X. That was
> the base system though; not the ports tree.
>
> Come to think of it, I'm quite (be it pleasantly) surprised to see that
> deskutils/hot-babe is still allowed. I'm still half waiting for someone
> with misguided delusions of moral superiority to delete that port, thinking
> it's their decision to make that FreeBSD must not enable people to display
> their system load as a cartoon woman in various stages of undress. Or
> something along those lines. But I digress...
>
> Anyway, if anyone misses this port, I'll be happy to maintain it privately
> and make it available from a public repository, if only because I strongly
> oppose censorship, so I would gladly help circumvent what I consider to be
> a hopelessly outdated and even morally wrong concept.
>
> Fonz
>

Could you maybe have a separate category in ports, called "uncensored" 
or something? We are all adults and can take care of ourselves, can't we?

Grzegorz


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