On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:27:25PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > The Hurd is not such a system, but it's perfectly reasonable to > imagine Debian ports that are only for such applications. As long as > we are clear and up-front about whatever limitations there might be, > there is no problem here. Except the obvious problem that such a system would probably be too different to fit under the debian umbrella. A system with no concept of users would be a bad fit for our policies on users, or our tools that change user attributes, or our applications that expect users. The reality is that debian/pocketwatch just doesn't make any sense; there is some minimal level of functionality necessary for a system to be "debian". No definition of the functionality debian needs has been made, but it's probably a waste of time to write one--to paraphrase a u.s. supreme court justice, we'll know it when we see it. -- Mike Stone
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