Re: Debian defaults: Are them a democratic process?

2004-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
ROBERTOJIMENOCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to know if there's a formal process where defaults like the > ones I proposed can be voted to please the majority of the users. Good God, NO! We've already seen how poorly the majority choose things, like the President of the US for example.

Re: Debian defaults: Are them a democratic process?

2004-11-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 03 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2004, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote: > > I'd like to know if there's a formal process where defaults like the > > ones I proposed can be voted to please the majority of the users. > > Wishlist bugs, and discursion on debian-devel, AFAIK.

Re: Debian defaults: Are them a democratic process?

2004-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 03 Nov 2004, ROBERTOJIMENOCA wrote: > Lately, I've seen how Debian is not following the wishes of many users. Debian as a whole has never done that. Maintainers most often do, but we are actually supposed to ignore user requests if we have a technical reason to. That the technical reason

Debian defaults: Are them a democratic process?

2004-11-03 Thread ROBERTOJIMENOCA
Lately, I've seen how Debian is not following the wishes of many users. I've seen how many distributions like Fedora Core, SUSE, Gentoo, even Debian based ones like Knoppix and Ubuntu are listening their users and having the defaults most users want. Like using the more secure, scalable and easier