oh and i forgot one important thing i wanted to ask developers: can we agree on a way to version pure:dyne? there is a big deal of confusion in versioning distributions around... i'd like to solve that at least in between us.
what i call versioning is the ability to understand, from inside the system, what distribution and which version of it we are running. this is usually done with lsb_release -a which is quite kludgy depending from python to parse apt-cache policy, all that overhead for a simple task that can be solved by a simple text file. OTOH /etc/debian_version is such a text file, since long forgotten into /etc even by ubuntu which doesn't says much anyway. /etc/VERSION is an heritage of dyne:bolic which is also present in pure:dyne, but still doesn't says which distribution we are in: dyne:bolic or pure:dyne? so i'm asking that we can agree on a *simple* format for a text file in /etc/ which will provide any script parsing it with the ability to know what system we are in. it can be as simple as echo "pure:dyne 10.10 " with the constraint of using 2 single strings separated by spaces and then whatever amount of strings for the codename. or even better: name version `date +%s` "codename in many words" this can be parsed from shell and it can be used in installers for software channels and such which can recognize which distro is and what software sources to add. thanks, ciao! p.s. is there a development list? just askin', i'm fine here BTW
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