On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:46:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Marcus> Obviously, the work should be done by the people who propose > Marcus> or people willing to help them, so this is a non-issue, IMHO. > > Is this possible? You need the help of the archive > maintainers, the mirror opoerators, the boot floppy people, the > official CD team, etc. Are you sure that all the people invilved are > enthusiastically in favour of a new distribution?
They don't need to be enthusiastic about it, it is good enough if they are not actively against it when it comes to a vote and is decided positive upon. > Marcus> I saw no other technical counter arguments. > > Is this not enough? Depends on the people who are involved in this work, not on me or you (sorry if I didn't realize that you are involved, but I can'r recall right now). So we find agreement when we write down that creating such a new distribution would be quite some work, and something needs to do it, or it won't happen of course. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
