Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
My memory doesn't extend back that far, nor have I found any documentation on that period. I presume you're talking about Ian Murdock's original plans, in some sense. Can you elaborate a bit on what those original plans were, and why they changed to the present (GNU style) form? > "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 Er... is this an alternate phrasing, a comment directed at me, or some combination? > 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). Do you mean, add this sentence at this point in the document, or anywhere in the document? (there's another paragraph where it would flow smoother). > 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. Again, I'm not quite sure why you're saying this -- is this language you'd like to see in the document? Or is this a concept you'd like to see in the document? Or is this something you'd like to see in some specific paragraph? Please, I can't try to intuit too much here. I need to be able to distinguish between misunderstandings, stream of conciousness, deep thoughts, and random comments. Thanks, -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]