On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:36:59PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > if a majority of voters vote that we should put > Nvidia drivers in main, then your fundamental problem is that you have a > majority of people (or at least, voters) in Debian who think it's ok to put > Nvidia drivers in main. Your only real choices, then, are to persuade them > that they're wrong, live with it, drive them off, or leave. > > The other option you're proposing here, to prevent them from doing what they > want to unless they have a 3:1 majority, reduces to "coerce the majority to > do what you say they should do, even though they don't think you're right". > > Do you really think that's a solution to the above pathological scenario?
In my eyes, this argument applies to any situation where a supermajority might be formally required, and in my opinion the corollary is that supermajorities are a bad idea in general. Do you agree with that corollary? If not, why not? -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/
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