On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 08:19 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, David Stone wrote: > > > You were so helpful with my last issue I thought I'd give you more > > information about my project and some other issues I am having. What I > > am doing is building a simple computer for the Senior Project. > > Basically, it will be a computer that your Grandmother could use. I uses > > the Matchbox project for a window manager and desktop and includes > > custom versions of Epiphany, Sylpheed, Abiword and Gthumb. For the most > > part it works very well and simple-cdd has been very easy to use and has > > drastically reduced the amount of work I had to do. > > Is there any reason to do this outside Debian or would you consider > tp follow the path of Debian-Junior who is supporting "the other end > of the age scale" ;-) _INSIDE_ Debian. Your are asking on a list that > is about doing customisations _inside_ Debian! >
Actually I was not planning on making it completely separate from Debian. I'm sorry if I indicated that and I did not expect to start the long responses about CDD. I would admit that CDD is rather ambiguous and hope you will be able to find a better name. I would consider what I have done so far to be a proof-of-concept more than anything. In its current form it would be a nightmare to maintain so there is a distinct advantage to having CDD included inside Debian. If I'm not mistaken to be a real CDD I would have to get my patches for each application included upstream. Once this was done all the packages would be included in Debian. From there I expect there is some procedure for CDD to be made with metapackages or something like that so they could be easily installed from any Debian installation. I would eventually like to do the work to make it a real CDD but since there's only so much time in a semester I proved to be much faster to create it outside of Debian for the time being. I would like some help with the packages.gz error I keep getting. Thanks, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
