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I just wanted to look at Eunuchs -- I don't even know if I care about this package at this point, I just want to see what its scope is.

Unfortunately, it appears like it only has a BitKeeper repository as its homepage. OK, looks prettier than ViewCVS, I'll just browse around... except all I can find are changesets, not the actual complete files. Am I missing something? OK, so I go to the download page, which tells me to download it via the bk tool. Well, of course, bk is not packaged as part of Debian, because it's very un-free.

So I have to do some stupid email verification just to get access to the download, then I get some stupid binary installer that just goes throwing files on my system, and then insists on linking all its files into /usr/bin, not /usr/local/bin as it should -- but at least they are only symlinks. Then on first invocation there's some stupid license.

Stupid proprietary tools. Only now do I realize there's a Debian package python-eunuchs, even if it is a little out of date.

I didn't read the license very well. I think for good measure I'm going to delete the thing, which hopefully gets rid of any obligations in the license. Stupid proprietary tools.