Re: [gentoo-dev] new herd: theology

[Dominique Michel]

Le Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:25:46 -0700,
Josh Saddler <nightmorph@g.o> a écrit :

> Nathan Smith wrote:
> > On 4/28/07, Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote:
> >> Josh Sled wrote:
> >>
> >> > If that's the case, might not "humanities" be a better name?
> >>
> >> s/theology/humanities/ sounds good. +1 from me.
> >>
> >> Rémi
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> >>
> >>
> >
> > Indeed.  Even if we wanted a herd specific to religion, "theology" is
> > not the best choice since I've yet to conceive of how a program can do
> > theology.  Certain types of programs can inform one's theology
> > (textual studies programs based on SWORD are a good example of this),
> > but the same programs have various other uses.  Humanities is a good
> > enough description.
> >
>
> It would only be called "humanities" if it was also trying to include
> gramps (geneology) with the other 7 packages which are explicitly
> religious in nature. As beandog has already said, gramps has been
> removed from the herd. religion or theology is clearly the most
> appropriate category of the remaining packages. There's no need to
> rename the herd to "humanities" just because some folks are
> uncomfortable with topics and packages relating to religion.
>
> Think about your local library (Dewey decimal system) -- you don't find
> Bible study guides in the humanities/sociology (300s, 400s, 600s, 800s
> and possibly 900s (history))...you find it in 100s and 200s. The
> sections on "religion and philosophy". the remaining 7 packages are
> clearly religious in nature. Don't try to label them anything else, just
> because you ain't comfortable with it or don't like 'em.
>

I agree with you. And genealogy is somewhere in the sciences or human sciences
section.

Dominique
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