Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb
On 24 Sep 1999, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
>
Um, I'm a Hindu, a Shastri (Hindu priest) actually. And I find nothing
offensive or questionable about the Bible. If this debate is going to
degenerate into prejudice (and history shows it will) kindly stick to your
own prejudices and don't try and speak for others. That's what Christians
are often accused of! :-)
The criterion should be utility. The Bible as a literary and cultural
foundation of Western civilization will be useful to a lot more people
than the Anarchism package.
Nevertheless it is moot point because we are running out of room and there
has to be a third CD. It might as well contain all the documents and
other packages non-essential to using an OS.
Here's another idea. What about putting all the non-essential compilers,
includes and other development tools on the extra CD too. They take up a
lot of room and does the average Debian user really need an eiffel
compiler or the IMAP development kit? gcc, libc6-dev perl etc. would
remain in the core because they are needed for compiling the kernel and
other major components of Debian.
Problems with this idea are it might leave a bad taste in the mouths of
people who remember how the commercial Unix's started "unbundling"
development tools and our constituency is probably more interested in
esoteric programming stuff than your average consumer.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
Reply to: