[Holger Levsen] > Yes, you misunderstood me. I've said "some other types of > applications", not "any applications".
OK. > But outside this set of "basic apps" there are more types of > applications, ie videoeditors, where IME there is no "best one to > pick". And this thread confirmed this. To me it did not confirm it, as you probably noticed, and I was able to update the set of packages installed based on it. To me we seem to have different approaches to the Debian Edu project. I believe we should continue as we always have done, and try to spend time within the project to save the schools and teachers time. This mean we should evaluate all kind of applications that will or might be useful for schools and pick the best of breed within each category of applications. We have always tried to do this, and I believe we should continue to do this. To not try to select the best application to install by default is to do the schools a dis-service and force them to spend time evaluating available applications when they could have gotten away with any of them and our selected application. You seem to argue for the project to drop this goal, and only provide the platform for schools to pick whatever they want to install on top of. I fail to see the use of this approach for Debian Edu, as there is already several platform for those schools that want to follow this approach. One such platform is Debian, another is Ubuntu, a third is Fedora, a forth is OpenSUSE. Debian Edu is and has always tried to be different from these generic platforms, by saving time in schools by making decisions for the schools. As these decisions are never set in stone, schools that want it has always been able to revert them, but those schools that do not want to spend time on evaluation all the options have been able to get by with the choices we made for them. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
