On Tuesday 25 January 2005 20:53, Tristan Seligmann wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:30:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The problem is things/websites/etc that "many" parents don't think > > are appropriate for their children. > > > > "They" don't want this inappropriate material dumped into their > > children's laps right along side the things that the parents *do* > > consider appropriate. > > After some discussion with the other upstream authors, the current plan > of action is: > > The next release of Dosage will check both /etc/dosage/disabled
every parent [1] will have to go through the list of available comics,
evaluate them and disable them.
-> IMO it would be better to have /etc/dosage/disbled be a directory in
which to drop lists of unwanted comics. That way whatever groups take
offense/don't want a group of comics can easily (they don't need to mess
with your packages conffile) create a package that disables a certain kind
of comics.
This is still a problem on upgrades though, if dosage includes new comics,
and you upgrade before the filter-unwanted-comics-package is upgraded you
could end up with unwanted packages.
hm, how about this:
- have a /etc/dosage/collections directory you can drop a files. The name of
the dropped file is the collection name, the contents of the file is a list
of supported comics making up the collection.
- add the option for the admin to block access to comics of category X, or
to only allow access to comics of category Y
-> the building of collections can be done by however feels it's usefull to
categorize comics according to some criteria
-> collections might group the available comics according to subject/style/
genre/language/... which would be more broadly applicable then just kid
friendliness (e.g. user only wants Dutch comics/ doesn't want comics
dealing with religion, ...)
--
Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
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