Wow! What a way to dissolve a political "issue", just rename something, just grep and replace!!! (please forgive, this is obviously now off-topic) ~Katz Michael Liang wrote: > what's your want?provocation? > > On 8/28/06, *Zenon Panoussis* <centos at provocation.net > <mailto:centos at provocation.net>> wrote: > > > The mirror monitor at http://mirror-status.centos.org/ > <http://mirror-status.centos.org/> says > "taiwan, province of china". For those in politics, this might > be correct or wrong, depending on which side they stand on. > The common name of the island however, used universally except > perhaps in ROC, is plainly "Taiwan". Saying "Taiwan" does not > imply any siding with either political stance, while adding > "province of china" certainly does. > > So I wonder, what's the background to this odd naming? Did CentOS > receive a nastigram from the Chinese ambassador? Did the ROC mirrors > impose conditions for mirroring? Was it just an accident at work? > Or did CentOS make a conscious decision to solve a 60-year old > problem over the heads of those affected by it? > > Z > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org <mailto:CentOS-mirror at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror > <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror> > > > > > -- > Michael Liang > liangbin[AT]fudan.edu.cn > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror >