Re: Upcoming Debian Releases
On Wed, Jan 8 1997 10:12 EST Fabien Ninoles writes:
> I think Debian are begin to grown enough to begin to talk about
> dividing(??) the distribution. I really like the packaging scheme for
> everything (including some cluster like Guthenberg or x-books). But the
> ftp site double in three months, and bo seems to be ever bigger (may be
> twice than rex? I hope! ;-) It will be a good thing if we can divided
> everything to simplify life for users. Examples:
>
> - Having the main debian distribution including normal Linux package
> plus some popular extra but no source and no development except
> for the most important such as does who are already in stable.
> - Keeping contrib as it is.
> - Divided non-free in two: stable and unstable.
> - including some add-on repertories such as developpers ressources,
> extra packages, docs, meta-packages, reviews and magazine, etc.
>
> May be we can make some big sections partly part of the main distribution
> and partly part of the add-on distributions (eg: TeX, X11, dev.) The
> requirements was only that the main can be a standalone Debian System,
> and everything else extra stuff. I think some extra stuff must be
> included in the main distribution but only only to provide enough choice
> for the user. Particularly, he must can compile a personal kernel and
> some other distributed C sources with the main. That's just a bare
> minimum.
I see the need for a possible split, but don't like the idea as stated
above.
One big goal of Debian is that anything under the /debian directory is
*freely distributable and usable* (be it GPLed or BSD-Licensed or some
other
free license). Moreover, we want be as complete as RedHat or Slackware,
don't we?
David
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