On Sunday 08 October 2006 13:44, Christian Perrier wrote: > > passwd maintainers, what do you think about this? The idea would be to > > add a gender field in the GECOS, please see the bug log for details and > > rationale. > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/391717 > > I personnally dislike the idea (why gender and why not religion or the > like.....I think that the rationale of l10n is a bit haircutting, > here). But, anyway, this is something that should be discussed with > our upstream and he should discuss it with other distros.
i'd agree ... trying to solve the issue at hand (gender in l10n) by adding an otherwise useless field to GECOS seems like the wrong approach to me -mike
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