Assuming i don't get moderated out (unlike the resident troll), On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Luke Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > 1) your debian system will not be screwed up or compromised by using > devuan. you will also not lose any functionality or packages. > > 2) we understand the difficulty of maintaining an entire distro. > we implicitly understand that we will not get to 1,000 maintainers > in the immediate future, so we are being realistic and will not > be doing a complete fork. it's too much effort for us, and we > recognise that you probably wouldn't trust us (i.e. wouldn't > even want to *try* upgrading to devuan) if we created one. > > 3) we're restricting the scope of what we're doing to a few key > strategic packages, and we're going to make it easy for you to > remove systemd. that's our core focus.
This seems reasonable, as does keeping compatibility. Devuan's is a small team, so taking one pondered step at a time is crucial. Focusing on removing systemd dependencies as a first step seems reasonable and, with more and more packages depending on systemd, challenging too. I wouldn't aim at releasing a behemoth DE like GNOME on the first Devuan release. KISS please, no GUI if necessary, focus on a plugable infrastructure. It makes sense to keep compatibility with Debian *and* with upstream. Someone mentioned it already and i wouldn't be surprised if Debian becomes poetterized and adds systemd dependencies to packages that don't have them from upstream. For now, it seems like a new repo on sources.list is the way to go (similar to debian-multimedia). In the future, maybe it'll become a distro. My 2c Nuno _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
