On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 09:21, Joerg Wendland wrote: > Fabian Fagerholm, on 2003-12-02, 22:58, you wrote: > > Debian is the super-project. > > XYZ is a Debian Subproject, > > which provides the flavors A, B and C. > > > > Opinions? > > I like that though my in opinion flavors should only exist as > specialized installers, specialized kernels and package collections via > tasks and meta-packages. In this way everything keeps Debian and what > you get onto your machine depends only on the way you install Debian.
This is indeed the intention/ goal here. Some things, like debix/ knoppix live CDs start out with cool ideas that get implemented, before becoming policy compliant and "part of debian proper". And that's fine - having experiemental stuff pushing the edge is great actually. Ultimately we end up with more and better toys! cheers zen -- Debian Enterprise: A Custom Debian Distribution: http://debian-enterprise.org/ * Homepage: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/ * PGP Key: http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zen.asc * Please respect the confidentiality of this email as sensibly warranted.
