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ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … edirect=no
https://web.archive.org/web/20260417133 … id=2294792
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/User_t … libre_page

Ironic, ain't it...?

Last edited by brocashelm (2026-04-18 02:54:11)

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Elyon

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

Oh noes the DEI nazis again are burning books.

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blackhole

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

It's very clear from the deleted page:

The Xlibre project goes against https://terms.archlinux.org/docs/code-o … t/#respect and should not be listed on ArchWiki.

This is not any objection to the page itself. This is the action of an individual or individuals associated with Arch Linux who has deemed that the Xlibre project itself, "goes against" that particular section of their code of conduct. As a result that page has been deleted, but also they are disassociating themselves.

Maligning other FOSS projects or distributions, or any other operating systems and their users is prohibited.

Except for projects they wish to exclude and diminish, mainly through censorship.

Last edited by blackhole (2026-04-18 09:54:05)

diziet_sma

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

"DEI Nazis"

Mate, IDK about you, but I am living in a country where the anti DEI crowd are in power and trying to outlaw my existence. In case you haven't been paying attention, the mainstreaming of ID verification and de-anonymization of the Internet are part of that. "We have to protect kids" as a cover to censor and surveil the Internet while protecting the Epstein class, "We have to fight terrorism" as a cover for cracking down on protest and dissent - these are the tools of the same elite who fearmonger about gay people and immigrants, and also the same elite who claim nothing is wrong with paying more than half your income into rent. Your anger is justified, but your enemies are the same as mine, and they are playing you like a fiddle.

Take a look at Collective Shout, the group from Australia who got Steam and Itch.io to pull all adult games. They call themselves feminists, but they're founded by a Christian anti-abortion activist.

As far as Xlibre. The problem here is that the author has been a bigoted piece of shit towards other developers. I don't think the Arch maintainers' approach here was smart or correct, but it's reasonable to at least ban such software from the repos and leave it to the AUR. Similar has happened before, e.g. check out the history of bs1770gain getting pulled from Termux due to the maintainer being a literal Nazi - not a "DEI Nazi", an actual white supremacist Hitler-apologist Nazi.

greenjeans

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

There are millions of folks who have contributed to Linux, and in those millions are people from every part of the political spectrum, so yeah, some code might contain "hitler particles" or "commie particles" or whatever, lol.

If you don't like it and it keeps you up at night, then write your own code and STFU about it. Otherwise deal with it and move on and let people contribute who want to contribute. This external politics stuff is just shit, and it doesn't belong in Linux...it's not like we don't have our own internal struggles to deal with.

Some folks apparently just live to get their jimmies rustled, the arch mod seems to be one.

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Elyon

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

I'll just say that I lived in both a socialist state and now a capitalist state.
I clearly see what's coming.
Thank God for our fellow USA friends that helped abolish the regime back then.
I'll be greatefull to the Nation of USA until the last breath.

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Altoid

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

Hello:

@Elyon ...

... external politics stuff ...
... doesn't belong in Linux ...

This: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Best,

A.

diziet_sma

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

Elyon: "Antiracist is just a codeword for antiwhite," I see. Never mind then.

greenjeans, Altoid: you can be apolitical, or you can kvetch about "DEI Nazis" and antiracism being anti-white, which are political positions. People don't get to spout politics and claim they're apolitical, not even if their position is "both sides are bad" (i.e. centrism, also a kind of politics).

golinux

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Re: ArchWiki Deletes XLibre Page, Says 'Violates Arch Code of Conduct'

Enough!

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