+++ Geoff Brimhall [04-02-24 22:37 -0800]: > Been reading through the goals of emdebian, and the > thought popped up that rather than create a whole new > distro, make a smarter dpkg/apt which would strip the > unwanted parts out of a *.deb, or divert them to the > compact flash storage for use when needed. > > At intimate.handhelds.org, many,many packages from > debian-arm can be used. Version 1.0.1 of opie is in > debian unstable. Why not use what's there, but make > the installer more intelligent - remove unwanted > documentation/packaging info so it is conformant to > ipkg.
What we are really creating is infrastructure, tools and policy - the distro itself (possibly themselves) is really a side-effect of that. Secondly, I'm not quite sure how the intimate/familiar split works these days, but from talking to familiar people, they'd very much like a better integration mechanism (with Debian) because a few people are struggling to maintain a large number of packages. Maybe this isn't true of intimate, but in general I think there is room, and indeed a need, for a better central infrastructure upon which a multitude of different mini-distros can be built. So whilst we are of course making 'yet another distro', I sincerely hope we're doing it in a way that will actually produce a set of meta-distro tools and that this will reduce the amount of duplicated work, rather than increase it. But I could be wrong of course and I'm very interested in anything that intimate people can bring to the discussion - what it your current build process, and would better tools or integration with Debian help or are you just fine thanx very much? Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
