The most relevant place for a discussion would be the Debian Jr. list
(in CC). About "my" expectations: The Debian Jr Blend is just
orphaned
and nobody cares about it. It needs somebody with some love who will
revitalises this cute project. The "expectation" is that this
somebody
takes over the job to make it as useful as possible - so just turn it
into what you consider the right way to make Debian fit for young
children (and in the line of this make it most easy for your own
purpose
to create the live CD). So if packages might missing in Debian and
you
might have builded these - offer these for sponsoring into main
Debian.
If you have patches to packages which you consider useful - just do
not
be shy and care about specific tagging magic - what might be good for
you is most probably good for other Debian users.
Regarding the metapackages approach you are probably well advised to
read the Blends documentation at
http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/
This somehow explains how you can easily build metapackages using
simple
files which are just mentioning your needs. These will be available
for
any Debian user (also without the live CD) for an easy install. When
building the Live CD you can just use these metapackages. There are
some interesting features like checking the existence of packages and
so
on which finally will give you an additional degree of freedom in
your
live CD building business.
Feel free to continue this discussion on Debian Jr list (I'm
subscribed
there).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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