Re: Integrating aptosid?
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:23:45PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> FWIW my 1 cent: the idea is really sound although a bit idealistic,
> because it goes inline with my utopian future of Debian: many
> derivatives are just customizations of Debian with varying level of
> additional custom extensions (often DFSG-compliant thus candidates for
> inclusion into Debian proper) + installer or live-media options; i.e.
> they are using Debian package base and add some additional packages (or
> manual installations/customizations just because it might be easier at
> first)
>
> So at the end, is there any objective show stopper to
> hypothetically have in a Debian metapackages like
>
> N.B. couldn't come up with a good prefix, so let it be 'flavor'
>
> flavor-aptosid
> flavor-mint
> flavor-neurodebian
> ...
>
> installation of which would simply tune existing plain Debian
> installation to actually become the derivative itself?
>
> if only we could persuade and collaborate with derivatives authors to
> make this possible and easy. Then derivative projects could concentrate
> on providing custom installers/live-media and everyone would be happy.
>
> Or am I missing some substantial design issue which is still lacking
> from http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines
Sounds like the "Debian Pure Blends" [0] [1], with the difference that they
seem to use tasks instead of metapackages if I understood it correclty.
I don't know what's the state of the project though, maybe someone more
involved in it can comment further.
Cheers
[0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends
[1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/
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