On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 18:49, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > If it was accepted, can you explain what we would do ? > > > > We've two scenarios here: > > > > 1) Mandrake as a new subproject: > > If accepted, you can contact Debian developers through two MLs: > > debian-project and debian-devel.To discuss about a internal merge > > with Desktop subproject or not and others aspects, obviously. > > The new subproject automatically will be under Debian Free Software > > Guidelines, Constitution and in my view some(or many) adaptions to > > Debian Policy will be necessary to cover it. > > Well, obviously, this is not possible. > Maybe Mandrake seems to be only a nice installer with some software, but, this > is more than that.
> There is the numerous wizard, working closely with the distribution. Do you known debconf? or cdebconf? It's a configuration management system (for Debian packages) which supports many frontends including: gnome, readline and dialog.debconf supports i18n too. debconf and the documentation: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debconf/debconf_1.2.23.tar.gz debconf reimplementation in C(the original is in Perl): http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdebconf/cdebconf_0.30.tar.gz It isn't a troll: Is any Mandrake piece of software doing the same thing? Can you clarify to me? > There is msec, deeply rooted in the security mechanism of the project. I known msec and it's really good. > There is a lot of customized software, such as KDE, the kernel, or xmms > ( http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ ) > > And there is more, but, this should be enough. > So , merging the differences would not be interesting, for all the works it > represent. Yes, but we can share our experiences. Bye, -- Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
