On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:51:01PM +0100, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > > In the BSD world, ports are not part of the OS. A release of the OS (on > > CD or whatever) typically includes a snapshot of the ports tree. I > > think we could do something similar using testing. Maybe any package > > with priority optional or extra doesn't ever actually get "stable", but > > instead lives forever in testing and unstable. Since the OS that we > > actually release is significantly smaller without optional and extra, we > > can release more frequently, which makes it easier to insure that > > packages in testing are going to be installable on stable. > > Please don't. It is its support for packages (lack of separatiln between > core and ports) that gives Debian the foothold as server OS. I disagree. I use FreeBSD at work (had to, it was already there before I arrived) and while I'd much prefer to run "my" OS, I am very happy with the ports system. It allows for a rapid release cycle (Typically 1 release per quarter) and still produces a high quality server OS with loads of apps. I think that if we could tie the testing distribution into such a system, we'd be able to offer smoother upgrades and better stability than the BSD ports system while still speeding up our release cycle. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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