Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

[Mark Carroll <mtbc@ixod.org>]

"Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI" <renaud@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:24:13 +0100
> Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Let's attempt an analogy: if several members of a literature club 
>> started to use the literature club room to (lively) discuss their common 
>> interests in motorbikes, ice creams or ponytails, 
>
> Your analogy does not hold water since the on-going discussion is central to the use of Debian: i.e. whether or not many users will be able to continue using it.

Indeed. It's certainly of assistance to me as a Debian user to know what
the potential issues are with systemd as packaged/provided by Debian,
and what my alternatives are (whether adjusted systemd configuration, or
alternative init system) and how they might be achieved within a Debian
context. Details of how to do it outside Debian are off-topic.

Talk of forking does seem a bit premature though. Even post-jessie I'd
hope that it often suffices to just build some alternative binary .debs
from the Debian source packages but compiled with different options, so
they may depend on less; I'm sure somebody could offer hosting for such
a supplementary repository. I'd also hope that how to use Debian's
source packages and toolchain to create differently compiled packages to
be installed into a Debian system is pretty much on-topic too though!

-- Mark