On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 09:53:58PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes: > > > It's pointless to package two peices of software that appear to do > > an identical job with identical design decisions. > > I think this sets a bad precedent. It "sets" no kind of precedent at all. It is instead a perfectly valid manifestation of stare decisis[1]. [1] Consult your favorite law dictionary. -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do when Debian GNU/Linux | they take over a country is to outlaw branden@debian.org | cockfighting. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Oklahoma State Senator John Monks
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