Bug#53849: PROPOSAL: emacs/tex downgrading to optional
Hi...
> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 16:22:03 CST
> To: 53849@bugs.debian.org
> From: Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#53849: PROPOSAL: emacs/tex downgrading to optional
[...]
> > > All I can see here is a closed-minded `I don't want LaTeX or Emacs, and
> > > I don't even want to have to think about it to avoid them'. :-/
> >
> > Because this isn't an issue of right or wrong, only what is preferred for a
> > majority, there is no such thing as a logical response to this sentence.
>
> Ok, well I prefer that Emacs, at least, remain in standard. I believe it
> is a common enough package that most users will want to at least look at
> it, and if they don't like it, it's trivial to remove. TeX I feel less
> strongly about.
>
> I don't think I'm in favor of this proposal, as written.
I am. And emacs is practically the only editor I use. Emacs is HUGE, and
I totally -agree- with the rights of a person to say "I don't want it,
and I don't want to think about it. It's big, and how dare you force me
to consider it! Maybe I am a newbie, and the 7 hour download that could
have been was turned into 14 on a repeated basis because you force me
to consider it every time I upgrade. Again, how -dare- you!"
References to "you" in the quote should be seen from the eyes of a person
who is installing debian or upgrading it, and doesn't necessarily know
this "you" or who it is. Maybe the installing person is new to debian.
-Jim
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as Laney College CIS admin: jim@laney.edu http://www.laney.edu/~jim/
as Debian developer: jwl@debian.org http://www.debian.org/~jwl/
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