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/ -- perl -E'$_=q;$/= @{[@_]};and s;\S+;<inidehG ordnasselA>;eg;say~~reverse' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110503194649.GA4814@PC-Ale.WAG300N
