On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 14:35, Walt Pennington wrote: > > There is no Debian-Med "download" because Debian-Med is a > > Debian meta-project. It tailors a standard Debian system to > > the needs of the medical/biosciences community. > > > What are the ways in which the distribution tailored? > > If the distribution is tailored, where are the tailored changes?
>From my perspective....... You must use EXACTLY the set of pre-requisites that are available in a Debian distribution. For instance....because I use Plone 2.0 I cannot participate because Plone 2.0 is not part of a Debian distribution.....if I choose to use another version of a Zope product that is not already a Debian packages I cannot ship a copy of it with my application because it MIGHT be shipped later as an approved Debian product....therefore you are handcuffed to what ever the Debian gods have decided you should use for development. If you choose to be 6 - 12 months behind in features and capability then Debian-Med products might be worthwhile?? Just a little insight to my experience with Debian Med...... Maybe this is why no one else has distributed a Debian-Med package application either? Cheers, Tim
