When i had my first deb packaging, i saw the power of this format: a compiled package that can sets dependencies, i thought that it was a very stable system to install-remove package. After, using debian every day, installing and removing packages, i noted that every package can be configurated to ask questions to the user to make a configuration... Also i noted that most of desktop programs and environment (Kde, Gnome, Windows maker) are already supported by unstable branch of debian (this branch can seems dangerous but it is not). So... Why not use this features to create the debian-desktop subproject? Give me only few minutes to explain. If we think on debian desktop not like a new distro, but a package, a false package that contains only dependencies, it can use the power of apt to solve the dependencies and installs a lot of useful programs (that now you need to add one to one) all in one package. Using this point of view i can show some advantages: 1)it will create a desktop system just do apt-get -f install name_of_the_deb_desktop_pkg 2) Easy to install/remove/upgrade (easy to switch between desktop - server) 3)It is still a debian system (using its stable rules) 4)Use the infrastructure that debian have 5)Customize your desktop, you can add - remove some packages that are not in that package 6)Easy to maintain and upgrade Yes.. this is only a point of view, second me it is a good solution. Please tell me if you want to try this approac, i'll built a sample debdesktop package to test if you'll show interest. Thanks... -- website
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