Previously Jacob Kuntz wrote: > is anyone else out there scared of the idea of project forking? Yes, which is why we're not doing that. From what I've seen the idea is to work on a set of additions to Debian to tailor to a certain need, in this case kids. That doesn't mean that Debian will be forked and a new distro will arrive, but that things will be added to Debian so that the whole distribution will benefit more people. If you combine this with the package pool idea you get a very powerful concept: we'll have a big Debian distribution just like we have now, but it will also become very easy to take a subset of that and use that for more specialized purposes. So in this case you could take a subset of Debian that includes kids-specific software and voila! You have a `Debian for kids' without having needed to create a fork. In the case of `trusted Debian' (is that still alive?) it also wouldn't be a fork, but just a subset of know safe and audited packages. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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