Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 20:23, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:44, VEROK Istvan wrote:
> > Subsets can also have subsets, or a subset may even come from the
> > confluence of other subsets, so there is no need to name one level a
> > "custom Debian distro" and another level a "flavor".
>
> I'll elaborate more in a later post, but I just want to give a quick
> comment here.
>
> In the light of the previous discussions, we have to distinguish between
> an *organisational* term and a *technical* term. It's not a very sharp
> distinction in some cases. For example "package pools" is organisational
> in one context but it is also clearly a very technical term since it has
> a concrete implementation in the archive and the package tools.
>
> Anyway, "flavor" is a technical term. "Custom Debian Distribution" is an
> organisational term.
Organisational, as in "package pool" is also organisational ?? - this is
what your clear exposition of the three layers has lead us to basically
agree on up to this point, and I could almost cut and paste your email
into the wiki it was so clear (at least Debian parent(super) project ->
CDD -> Flavor).
I hope I haven't misunderstood you,
zen
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