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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Old-Topics: Re: [Dng] Dng Digest, Vol 5, Issue 11
Subject: [Dng] Easy forkability
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 01:19:04PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 01:04:05PM +0000, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Ста Деюс <sthu.deus@???> wrote:
> > > But, at the first, what is planned to perform to protect «Devuan» from
> > > the guys, that got hold of the fantastic project «Debian»? In other
> > > words, if the guys come to «Devuan» and by their cruelty will start
> > > to «help» some of developers to corrupt the project, do abnormal,
> > > unnatural for the project things -- similar like constitution of
> > > «Debian» appeared, finnaly the «systemd» was forcibly set up: how we
> > > will protect our project?
> >
> > Very good question.
>
> Well the answer is simple: if such an unlikely "invasion" would
> happen, we will always have the opportunity to fork Devuan, for the
> good of its users :)


This suggests that one of the goals of Devuan should be easy forkability.

But it's not clear to me what this involves technically.

Any suggestions?

Are there aspects of the existing structure of Debian that made it more
difficult to fork?

-- hendrik