Re: Debian IS for the enterprise (Was: Debian Enterprise?)
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 21:35, Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> wrote:
> But since we're (more than?) 600 developers, maintaining 8000 packages is
> difficult. But if those 600 developers only had say 3000 (just a number out
> the head), then more bugs could be fixed, and I could get more help fixing
> MY bugs when/if I don't have the time (or knowledge, which is the case in
> the listed packages). --
Let's consider for the sake of discussion that this package cull involved
removing Postfix and KDE (we have Exim and GNOME).
This would force me to build my own packages of Postfix and KDE instead of
doing some of the other things I do (or maybe change to a distribution that
had KDE).
Removing packages from a commercial distro will allow resources to be deployed
elsewhere. Removing packages from Debian would result in a duplication of
work as every developer who wants the package in question maintains their own
build tree, and thus takes resources away from other development.
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