gnaughty is a hot babe

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 29 09:38:21 UTC 2009


On 05/29/2009 03:00 PM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> IMHO it is not Fedora's job to  define family values & moralities. Such morals/values will vary all around the world
> I don't want fedora to define such things, we have our own values predefined.
> 
> it should not make my job finding suck packages difficult
> we have more than 10,000 packages in the repos so don't expect me to
> test them all
> 
> the package maintainers already classify their packages using Group:
> in the spec file
> 
> and they already classify them in yum comps files
> 
> I demand a systematic way, a policy that tells a package maintainer
> how to categories their packages in a unified proper way to warn
> people like us from their packages.

The problem, how do we determine what is offensive to any particular
group? Some people consider 3D shooter games offensive. This is slippery
slope. Unless there is a legal issue, I believe Fedora is going to end
up with that package. For a derivative, you have to pick and choose what
you want.

Rahul




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