Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> escribió:

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 08:11:16AM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote:
>>
>> > What do we (the DNG people) want for ascii ?
>> >
>> > * our own bug reporting system
>> yes please
>
> Crosslinked where appropriate with similar bugs on other distros, such
> as Debian, so that an automated script can inform us when they are
> fixed.

This would be great.
>
>> > * a method for dividing Devuan in "cases" or "eggs" that do not
>> > interfere with each other. E.g. the KDE egg, the LibreOffice egg, the
>> > multimedia egg... maybe tasks with steroids?
>> there could be some improvements to the dependency chains to be had,
>> but overall I think this is unworkable.
>
> What does this provide that isn't already proided by packages that
> depend, say , on all the components of KDE? or of LibreOffice?, etc.
> Is this different from what dselect provides? If so, how?

The idea is avoiding crossed dependencies that make partial upgrades a
nightmare. A package that simply depends on other packages is the
worst solution.
>
>> > * Long Term Support for server whit a method for fast updating certain
>> > packages (like virus lists)
>> This is pretty much already there. What we need is a security team with
>> sufficient resources to be able to patch long standing bugs in debian.
>> Updated virus lists?? Linux doesn't get virus's...
>
> Other systems do, and Linux systems are often used as servers to those
> other systems.

This is what I was thinking about, e.g. Mail server with ClamAV.

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