Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: new herd: theology

[Alexandre Buisse]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:25:01 +0200, Duncan wrote:
> > It's a very good question, it was posed at the time, it was never
> > answered and at last we can now say it was almost completely ignored.
>
> I (and I expect others who know) didn't answer this before, as it would
> have been too easy to start an OT subthread I didn't want to start, but I
> trust everyone minding the CoC will prevent that from occurring now.
>
> Briefly (and intended to be neutrally), the Latter Day Saints, commonly
> known as the Mormons (maybe other groups as well??), have a religious
> interest in genealogy, so having it in the religion/theology herd would
> make sense to them.  That should answer the question, and give a place to
> start for those interested in looking it up.

And a sect from the remote regions of Lapland believes that haskell is
a godsend and adore the ghc source code as their Holy Scripture, should
we move the haskell herd to theology as well?

 
> However, I agree the sciences or a general humanities herd will make more
> sense to most folks.  I don't feel strongly enough about it to be worth
> arguing a maintainer's choice of herd for their packages, however.  After
> all, they're the ones taking responsibility for it in the tree,
> regardless of the herd it's in, and if it's more convenient for them in a
> theology herd, why should it be a problem for those not interested in the
> package?  It might raise a few eyebrows here or there, but if it's being
> well maintained, there are more critical things to argue about.

Sure, there are more critical things out there, but why should people,
on such a critical subject, chose to label packages that have nothing to
do with religion with a "theology" stamp?

/Alexandre
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