Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 15:55:27 +0000, Matthew Garrett
<mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Debian is not a democratic society. It is not intended to be a source of
> all information known to man. It is supposed to be a project to produce
> a Free operating system. That means:
>
> a) Things that are not useful should not be in there
> b) Things that are gratuitously insulting to a large number of people
> should not be there unless they're fantastically useful
>
> Having this argument over a program that is entirely useless in the
> first place just makes it harder to have a proper discussion in the
> cases where it actually matters.
This is where I'd like to put in a round of whole-hearted applause.
> Or, putting it another way: failing to include this piece of code does
> Debian no demonstrable harm. Including it does. I know we have something
> of a reputation for preferring philosophical masturbation to actually
> doing the useful thing, but that shouldn't result in a several hundred
> post flamewar. What are you all, stupid or something?
Sure, they're humans. ;)
Here's one useful suggestion, I think:
If hot-babe is useful as a .deb, make it available as such through its
own web site or something. This works for many other packages not
accepted into the Debian tree for whatever reason, why shouldn't it
work for hot-babe?
Or, if those of you who really really want hot-babe in a kind of
distribution feel like it, create your own distribution tree with
hot-babe and other stuff that's not regularly distributed in main,
contrib, non-free or non-US. I'm sure there's enough interest around
to make it popular.
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