On 07/15/2015 01:40 PM, Franco Lanza wrote:
>
> Well, in my personal opinion devuan should not focus on new users, as
> nor debian does.
>
> For new users there are plenty of distros, most notable ubuntu, and we
> should not compete with it.
>
*** I STRONGLY oppose this view, and you already know why: there are
plenty of ways to build upon a minimalist base and provide an easy
"upgrade" from total newbie to guru in a snap with preseed files, tasks,
"seeds", or blends.

For example there should be a minimal base install of Devuan that allows
anyone to build upon and make a derivative; there should be a server
install aimed at system administrators, and there yes, you can default
to vim and postfix; and there should be a default desktop install with XFCE.

But making such choices as ignoring new users by default is in my
opinion a sorry strategy when it's so easy to build upon a sane base.

>
> Second focus is to be a "base framework" for derivatives
>
*** Well, I think that the "base framework" should be the default
Devuan, and everything we do is built upon that e.g., as Blends.

==
hk

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