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Re: Conflicting packages not of extra priority.



On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 09:04:14AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> One small nit: that's a logical fallacy.  You're arguing from
> specifics to generalities which simply isn't possible.  Consider the
> (in)famous Monthy Python reference: all duck's float, therefore
> everything that floats is a duck. :)

These things do not cause Santiago to lose any sleep.  He's quite
adept at begging two different questions, then citing one as support
for the other.

> If you really think that should be the case, propose a formal
> ammendment to policy *explicitly* declarig it to be so.  Appealing to
> Ian (or anyone else) is mute: we've got a constitution, use it. :)

He has done so; but it is also drawing criticism for not being explicit
enough.  I guess we'll see what happens.

-- 
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