On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:49:16PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
You're, uh, just eliding what I consider the substantive and interesting
points in this discussion. That's not really very helpful. Do you agree
with them, and are you convinced by the arguments?
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> > The question isn't installing two packages (people already do that for
> > apache and apache-doc, eg), it's about working out that emacs' docs are
> > in a package called "emacs21-doc" versus "debian-political".
> So, what's the problem? Or is the question about whether the docs are
> in "main" or not?
I know it's easy to forget, but ``Our Priorities are **Our Users**
and Free Software''. Putting docs for random packages in a package with
a completely bizarre name, and collating a bunch of docs from random packages
into a single package when there's no natural correlation amongst those
packages is a disservice to our users.
Cheers,
aj
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