Hello, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Please, can we answer the question? If it's not useful then say, > "Yes, it's not useful, but that's not relevant." If it's useful say, > "It's useful, which should settle the case." > > Instead, I hear, "Nyaa nyaa nyaa, I'm not goiny to say whether it's > useful."
My impression is that the question you're asking is not that easy to answer with yes or no - neither in general nor in this special case. I assume you agree that the answer strongly depends on the purpose ndiswrapper is intended to use for. There is the one position saying, yes ndiswrapper is useful and the other saying that it's not. Both positions where supported with arguments and are IMHO *both* eligible. IMHO Henning Makholm did fairly well describe the essential traits of both positions (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). I think it's a question of respecting the opinion of others, of accepting that others say "No, ndiswrapper isn't useful. It should go into contrib" whereas yourself may think it's useful (independent of it's suitability). And experiencing the nice diversity of opinions in this thread I can't say at all whether it is usefull or not without offending other's opinions. Beside the discussion whether your question is relevant at all for the decision this is perhaps a reason why you get an indifferent answer "Nyaa nyaa nyaa, I'm not going to say whether it's usefull." You just can't imagine all possibile applications Debian might be used for - at least I can't (and don't aim to do so). That's why I can't simply say it's useless or not. I am not a Debian developer, but isn't the conflict itself in this thread an argument why you shouldn't consider the criterion of usefulness *at* *all* when deciding about putting a package in main or contrib? To find a consensus about the usefulness of a package is IMHO potentially far to oppositely charged. I wouldn't burden the developers to discuss such tedious questions over and over again in order to decide whether a package belongs into main or contrib. IMHO clearly technical criteria are instead more adequate to decide such questions, as suggested by Henning Makholm (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>). Regards Micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
