Re: Anarchism package
On 15-Nov-00, 16:44 (CST), Ralf Treinen <rt@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> > On 15-Nov-00, 15:51 (CST), Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The best would be to ban completely religious, philosophical or
> > > political documents from Debian.
> >
> > Such as, perhaps, the GNU Manifesto? Or the Debian Social Contract?
>
> Before being accepted to Debian I sent a declaration to my AM that I
> abide by the Debian Social Contract. I guess everybody of us did in
> some sense, this is why we are here. It is *our* manfesto. The GNU
> manifesto, for instance, is not our manifesto.
Irrelevant, in both cases. We can either ban all "completely[1]
religious, philosophical, or political documents" from Debian, or
none. Trying to pick and choose leads will inevitably lead to a flamewar
that makes all previous Debian flamewars look like birthday candles.
As an aside, I'll note that "our" manifesto is actually Ian Murdoch's
"Debian Manifesto".
I'm hoping that the imminent implementation of package pools will make
it relatively easy to split out the "data" section, and thus sideline
this argument.
steve
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