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