Sorry for replying to the initial mail but I just wanted to address some things that were said in the thread without sending a bajillion replies (wow, didn't expect the thread to get so long!).
Conflicts are a bad idea since you force people to not use things even if they want to. In the case of pulseaudio it sounds like they just paper over a bug. As Adrian says, that bug (pulseaudio/jack interaction) should be fixed instead of papering over it with Conflicts. I don't know how to make the phrase "Debian Pure Blend" any clearer, perhaps we should just use "Debian" instead. Jonas's presentations on Debian Pure Blends at FOSSASIA and other places would probably help but I can't find any videos, some links to slides here: http://wiki.jones.dk/DebianAsia2011 d-i and tasksel don't need packages to be on-disk, they can be pulled in from the Internet. DebianEdu is not yet a "Debian Pure Blend", they are still a derivative for now. They have a separate website, separate donations/funding stream, separate release schedule, separate ISO images, some modified packages and maybe more. Having used GNOME 3 on a laptop with a touchscreen for a while now, I would say it isn't touchscreen-oriented and currently has some major issues preventing use on touchscreen-only devices. All of Debian's ISO images are here and none of them are for specialised blends, just for generic desktops: http://www.debian.org/CD/ There is no guarantee that good (multimedia) software will remain in Debian and QA folks remove truckloads of software every year. The only thing that ensures that software remains in Debian is when people put effort into keeping it there. For a specialised types of software like media production, the set of people who want to use it does not intersect much with the set of people who have the skills to package it, leading to things like cinepaint leaving Debian, people trying to bring it back and then giving up. The multimedia team doesn't do sponsoring but does do team maintainence: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Sponsoring http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/Join d-i doesn't yet allow choice of desktop and I read somewhere that d-i/tasksel folks wanted to limit desktop choices but maybe they would be open to a "specialised tasks" sub-menu or something that would contain the non-default desktops plus all the blends. For people who want to stick with specific older versions, we have snapshot.debian.org. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6F5pdEfBY9UfMj1rBA+UoXCFx2MA5rr5A3NPEMdN9bi=q...@mail.gmail.com
