Re: Let's CENSOR it! (was: Uploaded anarchism 7.5-1 (source all) to master)
On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 18:01 -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> Ben Collins <bmc@it.larc.nasa.gov> writes:
>
> > This isn't about censorship, this is about Debian being a software
> > distribution. As for the bible arguments, it is distributed as an
> > add-on (iirc) for fortune which makes it work with a system related
> > program. The anarchist package is nothing more than an html mirror.
>
> Frankly, I have no problem with Debian becoming "one-stop shopping"
> for large quantities of the interesting stuff on the internet. Would
> I have found the jargon file if it hadn't been packaged? Maybe, but
> maybe not.
>
> I'd like to have some of the ebooks packaged up and available. It's
> much easier to let someone else handle making the .debs and getting
> the files in the right places with the right permissions. This will
> be more important as we get our multi-machine admin stuff going. What
> if you're a school that wants to install 1000 Debian machines.
> Arguably it's a lot easier to just install the debian etexts (or
> whatever) that you want on one machine and then tell the other
> machines to clone it (with whatever our fancy admin tool ends up
> being) than to have to go get, package, install, and distribute this
> stuff yourself. Further, with .debs, you get fixes for free.
>
> With apt, this is a non-issue anyway. What we probably should do is
> put this stuff in a separate tree so people not interested can ignore
> it, or we can let people keep it on some other server. Either way, if
> someone wants to package the stuff, I say let them.
In another thread (If Debian wants to grow, let it grow.), I pointed out
that currently packages seem to fall into one of three categories:
1) Progams
2) Data associated with programs (bible, fortune, jargon file)
3) Data associated with linux/debian (FAQs, HOWTOs)
IMHO this would be a good way to determine what goes into the main distro,
and anything else could go into a seperatly maintained (I don't know what
the load on master is like at the moment) and distributed (not everyone
wants to buy a gazillion CDs of stuff that can be bought elsewhere or found
on the net just to get the latest version of Debian, and as I understand it
mirroring can live without the extra load it would generate) tree.
Cheers
Dave
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