On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 22:58:28 +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > Hi, > > Recently, when thinking about the terminology surrounding Debian > Subprojects, I thought about the term "flavor". I always liked that > term, because I find it very descriptive. > [...] > So I suggest the following terms: > > Debian is the super-project. > XYZ is a Debian Subproject, > which provides the flavors A, B and C. > > Opinions?
I'm always a fan of clearly defined terminology. I also like the idea of not limiting a sub-project too much; otherwise we'd probably see a large number of sub-projects formed, w/ discussion on their respective lists being splintered (but applicable to more than one). Flavors sound a lot like a subset of tasks. There are task groupings like "gnome", with another task group like "web-cluster" (that pulls in apache/ipvs/keepalived/heartbeat/etc). The difference being that one is simply a collection of packages, while the other is an installation or server category.
