On 10/08/15 21:49, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
"T.J. Duchene" <[email protected]> writes:
On Monday, August 10, 2015 08:15:20 AM Rainer Weikusat wrote:
[...]
Debian claims to support "43,000 packages" of easily installable
software. This confuses some people into believing the only possible
way to build a usuable system based on Debian but with making some
different policy descisions MUST be to start with creating 43,000
forked packages which all have to be modified manually.
I am entirely uncertain of what you are talking about. In fact, I think that
Devuan should support a functional subset simply to reduce workload.
That's based on the exact same premature assumption. But most of these
"43,000 packages" will be of little interest to anyone but the people
who packaged them and it will be possible to use them with at most
trivial changes (such as dropping 'political' dependencies). Further,
there's no point even looking into this unless someone wants to use a
certain package. This would then make said someone the natural candidate
for performing whatever modifications (if any) might be necessary.
Having done some of the packaging work for Devuan, I think it's worth
pointing out:
a) Those 43,000 packages are built from around 15,000 sources (if that)
b) systemd currently touches a very small subset of these packages at
the moment probably in the 100's range, once you discount all the purely
systemd packages
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