On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > > In my view (as I said), it would be logical to name a further > > subdivision of that product "flavor". > I like this interpretation of the term flavor and it would be easily > applicable for Debian-Med to flavors like: > - Medical practice > - Medical research [snip]
Just a suggestion on naming: Due to the unclear connotations, there is a great deal of confusion over the terms "internal project", "subproject", "flavor", "custom Debian distribution" and the like. To clarify my own thinking, I started using just "subset" and "mutation" instead. To my mind, the difference is whether a given collection of packages aims to be straightforwardly upgradable to a full Debian (IOW, whether it can peacefully coexist with any number of packages from Debian proper). If yes, it's a subset. If no, it's a mutation. Debian-Jr, Debian-NP, Debian-Lex, Debian-Med are all subsets. Adamantix and Knoppix are mutations. Subsets can also have subsets, or a subset may even come from the confluence of other subsets, so there is no need to name one level a "custom Debian distro" and another level a "flavor". My EUR 0.02, Istvan
