Re: the danger of specialized Debian
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 07:26:34PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
> is anyone else out there scared of the idea of project forking? is there
> another way to provide the same funtionality without adding confusion?
It was always one goal of Debian to provide a broad base for people to build
specialised distributions on top of it.
The idea is that you use most packages unchanged as a base and add value on
top of it, by adding packages and modifying some of the existing packages.
Thanks,
Marcus
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