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Debian and the hot babe problem

Posted Dec 2, 2004 3:08 UTC (Thu) by LogicG8 (guest, #11076)
Parent article: Debian and the hot babe problem

Gentoo works around this sort of "problem" with a USE flag. Adding the
key word "offensive" to the USE flag will allow Gentoo to install more
risque programs/themes/fortunes

And now bit of juvenile humor I couldn't resist (the easily offended
may ignore this). Attempting "emerge -p hot-babe" gave the following
output:

...
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "hot-babe".
...

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Gentoo and hot babe

Posted Dec 4, 2004 22:49 UTC (Sat) by tres (guest, #352) [Link]

Paul has made an ebuild for hot-babe. Get:

http://dindinx.net/hotbabe/gentoo/hot-babe-ebuild.tar.bz2

Instructions: Untar under your local portage directory (eg. /usr/local/portage/) and then 'emerge hot-babe'.

Taboo slang

Posted Dec 9, 2004 12:50 UTC (Thu) by phd (subscriber, #952) [Link]

> key word "offensive"

It is not of any help to turn "offensiveness" off. In Russian language the root (stem) "eb" corresponds to English "f*ck". Imagine how we the poor Russians feel looking at the name "ebuild"! How can we pronounce it on a street?!

Well, there are worse problems with "eb". "eBuisines" translated to Russian "eCommerce", but what can we do with "ebXML"?

There are also many other dirty words. Zope, well-known web-application server, looks in Russian as the Russian word "asshole". And often abused by people who dislike Zope.

I think it is unavoidable. There are far too many dirty words in all languages.