Re: Anarchism package
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 11:00:58PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG typed:
} Ralf Treinen <treinen@club-internet.fr> writes:
} > > This would take them out of the allready huge list of packages in
} > > a normal debian install, but still make them available to anyone
} >
} > Yes, this would be a solution. -Ralf.
}
} I think it's a very good solution, should we discover that there are
} so many such packages they are causing a problem where they are now.
} But it's such a small proportion of the size of the archive, that it
} would be a waste to bother right now.
Crazy question. Suppose we were to remove such datafiles from Debian.
Isn't this going to set up a precedent for removing stuff from Debian
because it offends somebody? For instance, isn't this feasible precedent
for removing the fortune packages, as well as paranoia and yow from the
Emacs package? Are we going to ban any and all bible/koran/etc programs,
as well as any that might happen to come up dealing with Tarot or paganism
or, gods forbid, I-Ching or superstitions?
This is a worse restriction than the one on non-free. And, seemingly
for all the wrong reasons.
I'm far from religous, and I dislike the bible, but this doesn't seem
right, and it seems against the Social Contract. It's censorship. I
thought Debian was about free speech, not about political correctness.
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An Thi-Nguyen Le
|In order to discover who you are, first learn who everybody else is;
|you're what's left.
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