-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:55:49PM +0200, Herman Robak wrote:
> 1 a) There are MANY Debian derivatives. Not all of them are binary > incompatible with Debian proper. Cherrypicking packages from them > could be a killer feature if common sense (check your own distro > first! Check compability!) was enforced. Two different things are discussed here: distributions and packages. A distribution is a set of packages tested that they work well together. This means *any* distribution (but a subset) is in principle "binary incompatible" with another, whether or not its packages are. I agree with you that cherry-picking has benefits. But really what you do is spawn new "distributions": Some combination of packages from several sources, mixed and tested to "work well" by _you_. Kind regards, - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIDOnun7DbMsAkQLgRArfhAJ9QsOkyj6ywfBnP4YUIG1oC9hQlggCfR+P/ zSAZEhzjbvFYE0EA2sbLNhQ= =xTim -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
