* Wiktor Wandachowicz :: > Hello all Debian folks! > > First of all I would like to congratulate all Debian developers > and maintainers for releasing sarge. Good job! (and a big relief > for all of you, I guess) > > Having a Debian installed on 10 Sun Blade boxes and helping a bit > on debian-boot with debian-installer I can safely say that I am > also concerned with the future of Debian. Lately I have spotted an > interesting entry in Ian Murdock's Weblog > (http://ianmurdock.com/?p=239), where he points out that in order > to get a better user recognition and vendor support some _naming_ > changes may be required. After reading the post I can say that > indeed there are some ideas worth to be at least considered. > > What I am referring to is that not only stable / testing / sid > repositories are enough. Maybe just after a little bit of tweaking > Debian could get some more "profiles" called server / desktop > also? What this means for developers, is to "link" (or understand) > such profiles as server == stable, and desktop == testing. On the > other hand, maybe some more "profiles" would be required, such as: > stable-server, stable-desktop, testing-server and testing-desktop?
IMHO, there is a series of (serious) problems in such a plan, such as: * testing and unstable are not installable by non-tech-folk, all the time, really. There can be times where they are, but there are some times they are not. They break. * we should not really multiply (space, time, bandwidth) needed for our mirrors; right now, some archs are endangered because of such hefty requirements. * we *do* have, after all, "tasks" to install desktops and (some, specialized?) servers, without having to resort to creating another 30G of repositories. * finally, the infrastructure necessary to do what you ask for is really a job better done by specialized derived distros (such as LinEx, Ubuntu, even Ian's own Progeny) -- HTH, Massa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]