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November 13th, 2007, 07:16 PM
Benjamin Mako Hill (http://mako.cc) had come up with this idea (http://mako.cc/fun/package-name-poetry/) quite a while ago: write poetry with Debian/Ubuntu package names only.
You can get the names of all packages in your APT cache with apt-cache search '.*' | perl -p -e 's/^(.*?) -.*$/\1/' | sort or just look around in your package manager. Redirecting the output of the above command to a file may be useful.
If someone can come up with a script that spits out random lines of (semi) meaningful package names (exempting library packages with awkward names, for example), that would be cool. Other interesting things to look into would be polygen (apt:polygen) and dadadodo (apt:dadadodo) (click to install).
Here's my favorite among Mako's poems:
This poem is my political poem. It describes and calls for an anarcho-syndicalist violent uprising against an overzealous United States police-state using only the names of packages in Debian (which is not something, for the record, that I personally advocate):
The tripwire felt apt-Spy.
Whois kommander? FBI.
Meld worker members: Kontact.
Spread crimson mercury extract.
Guarddog toppler: Unison!
Subversion! Flamethrower! Arson!
Roundup, recover, remind.
Recite anarchist verse inn rhyme
Freedroid? Ne! Recode freemind!
Update freedom inn gnotime.
You can get the names of all packages in your APT cache with apt-cache search '.*' | perl -p -e 's/^(.*?) -.*$/\1/' | sort or just look around in your package manager. Redirecting the output of the above command to a file may be useful.
If someone can come up with a script that spits out random lines of (semi) meaningful package names (exempting library packages with awkward names, for example), that would be cool. Other interesting things to look into would be polygen (apt:polygen) and dadadodo (apt:dadadodo) (click to install).
Here's my favorite among Mako's poems:
This poem is my political poem. It describes and calls for an anarcho-syndicalist violent uprising against an overzealous United States police-state using only the names of packages in Debian (which is not something, for the record, that I personally advocate):
The tripwire felt apt-Spy.
Whois kommander? FBI.
Meld worker members: Kontact.
Spread crimson mercury extract.
Guarddog toppler: Unison!
Subversion! Flamethrower! Arson!
Roundup, recover, remind.
Recite anarchist verse inn rhyme
Freedroid? Ne! Recode freemind!
Update freedom inn gnotime.