Hi, Actually, when Debian was formed it had only one developer, and no one could contribute packages, since that would have diluted the distributions tight integration. This bazaar thing has evolved.
"If you find yourself having to do something which seems to conflict with policy -- where it seems like you should do things differently, Please take a moment and reflect on the issue. The policy document has not been thrown together trivially, it has been the concerted effort of a number of people, who may well have spent weeks discussion each little point. If after careful review you still think that Policy happens to be flawed in some way, then please include a comment to that effect in your package's change log, and please file a bug report against policy. I like the rationale. I would add: Policy is the distilled wisdome and and experience of a number of people who have worked together to create the policy documents, and is meant to be something that one may depend on to have been thought through, for the most part (since the people who created this are only human, policy is not flawless). There are issues for which there are several equally valid technocal solutions, but a coherent distribution has to make a decision between competeing solutions -- conventions (like the location of the http server document root) that help different packages in the distribution cooperate and depend on each other. The policy documents are also a compendia of such conventions critical for a cohesive OS. manoj -- "Here at the Phone Company, we serve all kinds of people; from President's and Kings to the scum of the earth..." Lily Tomlin Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]