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Re: Adult section?

> I think there is some disagreement regarding the "goals of the project"
> among the developers. My opinion was always that Debian should include as
> large a selection of software as possible. Maybe we should have an "adult"
> section so that some sites (such as ours) can simply not mirror that
> directory? Then also CD-Rom vendors concerns about the product can be
> addressed.

I'd much rather that we would create a list of packages that are
"potentiall offensive" (see my signature). This list would make it easy
for CD manufactures to remove the "potentially offensive" packages, but
we would not have to groupe our packages in a "unnatural" way. As it is
now, the "potentially offensive" packages live in doc (bible, jargon?),
games (purity, ...), and base (kernel). Why do we have to group
those packages in a way that realy doesn't relate to their funtionality,
just because there are some people that cannot resist the temptation
to install and run those packages, knowing (from the description) that
they might be offended?

I mean, "rm" can do much worse things than just asking a potentially
offensive question ("rm -rf /"), but we don't move the fileutils
package to a "potentially-lethal" section, just because some
people like to be root always, and want to try out commands like that?

-- 
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org

Potentially offensive files, part 5: /dev/random.
`head -c 4 /dev/random` may print 4-letter words (once every approx 4e8 tries).


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