advertisement in packaged software

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/12/2014 01:23 PM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 février 2014 à 07:11 -0500, Matthew Miller a écrit :
>> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:08:20PM +0000, Petr Pisar wrote:
>>>> Are there any existing packages that already do that?
>>> vim advertises ICCF to make a donation for children in Uganda.
>>
>> Even leaving aside the whole charity / good cause vs. selling consumer goods
>> aspect, I think a message about donations buried in the help is also a
>> completely different case.
>
> On Fedora, it is in the help.
> On Debian, it is directly on the start when you open a empty file.

It seems to me that this is a result of your local configuration.  I 
have not customized vim on either system, and for me the startup screen 
looks pretty much the same.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team