Re: Bug#138541: ITP: debian-sanitize (was Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material)
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 04:52:19PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > I object to using any subjective method (such as popular vote) for
> > determining which packages should be conflicted with in such a package.
OK, so how about we define constituencies such as "religious fundamentalist"
of one kind or another, "Moral Majority", "vi-weenie", "GUI luser" etc.,
and people who number themselves in each group get to vote for a configuration
which would suit that particular group.
So, the "Moral Majority" votes create a config that excludes lots of swear
words and any reference to procreation. The religious fundamentalists' votes
create a bunch of configs that reject anything even vaguely dubious as far
as their particular religion is concerned (I can see that "Taliban" config
file being a bit of a biggie), the vi-weenies votes create configs that
exclude anything vaguely to do with Emacs (and probably also anything to
do with LISP, functional programming, Human Interface Design...), the
emacs crowd's votes can exclude anything that looks vaguely like vi, or
that doesn't use the <ctrl> key enough. The Real Programmers will bar
anything that's been written in a language any more advanced than, ooh, BCPL
(and there will be controversy about whether anything that's been not been
entered either via console keyswitches or paper tape should be allowed in).
The GUI-lusers reject anything that forces them to use a command line (or
in fact anything that even gives them the vaguest possibility of ever being
able to see such an abomination)...
Separate mailing lists would be required for each group, so that they could
argue the toss about whether, to paraphrase Woody Allen, sex is always a
dirty word -- or whether it's only dirty when you do it right.
Oh, and the LDAP search on any particular developer can show which of
these groups each developer has decided they are part of.
Lots of fun.
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Nick Phillips -- nwp@lemon-computing.com
Stay away from flying saucers today.
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