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Author: Gregory Nowak
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Subject: Re: [DNG] devuan LTS
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:49:49PM -0700, James Powell wrote:
> There is one thing I would recommend different that the standard Debian model. Release only the right amount of packages to create a working operating system under a complete installation, and dedicate the rest of all packages to Debian friendly build scripts for packages of the non-sequitur ranks to keep anything and everything optional, as that, optional.
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> This might help other non-Linux distributions like kfreebsd and killumos (Dyson) formulate strategies for packages.
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> Any thoughts on this?


Depends on what you mean by "working operating system under a complete
installation." On a server, that would include software like apache
and bind. Those wouldn't necessarily be needed by a typical user.

Greg


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