Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:40:03 +0000,
> Noel Torres <envite@???> wrote:
>
>> But how to start really working on Devuan?
> We'll need an installer. I think at this point in history it is enough
> to focus on a USB key image. Any other opinions?
>

I kind of think this sums it up - at least for a server-side distro:
http://blog.steve.org.uk/how_could_you_rationally_fork_debian_.html
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So if you were going to split the Debian project into "supported" and
"unsupported" what would you use as the dividing line? I think the only
sensible approach would be :

* Base + Server stuff.
* The rest.

On that basis you'd immediately drop the support burden of GNOME, KDE,
Firefox, Xine, etc. All the big, complex, and user-friendly stuff would
just get thrown away. What you'd end up with would be a Debian-Server
fork, or derivative.

Things you'd package and care about would include:

* The base system.
* The kernel.
* SSHD.
* Apache / Nginx / thttpd / lighttpd / etc
* PHP / Perl / Ruby / Python / etc
* Jabberd / ircd / rsync / etc
* MySQL / PostGres / Redis / MariadB / etc.

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Before that, some basic infrastructure (repo, build system, test
system), basic technical policy/architecture (how the pieces fit
together), basic organization (who, what, when, where, why, how, how
much, who cares).

Miles Fidelman





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