S N wrote:
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Creative thoughts, but I feel a little uncomfortable with it. In fact,
the other day (yesterday) I was pondering a distro that wasnt a distro.
Just a platform, and a base off which to install stuff from other
sources. Was pondering the way ximian's stuff worked, was studying
various models. Not too sure I liked it. For one, two windozey. It
just cant hold together like the integrated 'distribution of
applications'. two, with the way just about everything in the linux
world is still -devel if it is any good, and just the way...well, ya
ever notice how you cant seem to upgrade one app without upgrading all
the others? see, i suppose that this concept is for an all static
distribution (if there are any stampede developers listening that
remember this discussion we had at the last few meetings). Because like
windoze where it dont matter the other apps because every app will use
its own libraries, even if 30 other apps use em. And nothing ever
changes. noone ever upgrades just because of the way it is, not free,
closed source, and thus not widely available in the matter that linux
proggies are. But no, this is not the way to go. not for mandrake.
not yet. Cuz where i was goin earlier, with the rapid pace of
development, one couldnt upgrade one app. it wouldnt work. so we have
distros, distros like 80 and distros like cooker and the user need not
worry about it. Just *DONT* LIKE IT! So anyway...
But this idea you (sn) have...nasty. Many holes in that idea (many many
many) that would have to be shored up before even a first attempt. And
it would require vast amounts of resources taken from mandrake to this
new concept while mdk was still in production just to develop and test
it. takes years my boy. it would ruin the distro because of the strain
on resources. bad b-ad b-a-d B-a-d BAD! BAD! BAD! BAD!
I wanna throw a tantrum over here...
-Blue
