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Author: Bardot Jérôme
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To: devuan-dev
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] More ways to be free...
On 02/10/2019 16:10, . fsmithred wrote:
> On 10/1/19, Mason Loring Bliss <mason@???> wrote:
>
>>
>> It's be nice to see an elilo package, and equally nice to have how-to
>> documents showing how to set up the various bootloaders. I can tackle much
>> of
>> this over time and after learning more, but I'd like to know how people
>> feel
>> about it.
>
> I'm always in favor of allowing options and choices. Documentation for
> different bootloaders is a good idea. People ask about replacing grub
> occasionally on the forum and in irc.
>
> Here's a short howto for extlinux on ascii:
> https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=555
>
> I didn't check, but there might be something about extlinux and/or
> lilo on dev1fanboy's pages.
> >


we need to improve the installer :

more options/step for power users.
and maybe the same for standard user with the choice of
DE with screenshot (for the gui version)
Web Browser
Mail client
Writer suite


and i already talk about it some preset by kind of users
(developpers/dba/graphist/Gamers/pentester/ etc )


>>
>> Anyway, this leads to potentially a much bigger topic:
>>
>> 2. Third-party repositories. One of the few ways Ubuntu has a moral leg up
>> on
>> Debian is their seamless support for PPAs.
>
> This subject came up a few times in early meetings. It's probably been
> a couple years since anyone mentioned it. I think it would work well.
> There are already people developing stuff on their own for devuan and
> asking how to get new packages into the devuan repo. Something like
> PPA would make it much easier to make stuff available.
>

Not really fan of this for several reasons.

hard to maintain a list of several repository
good way to spread "bad practices"
split again the community.

I think make pre hook with higth qualities check can be better but allow
people to just link from repo for ie (in the better world full of
dragons (the goal for me)) :

i love this software
i make an add package request (devuan form)
some bot go on it and check if stuff for build on the repo exist
if yes just build it with several additionnal test

sry if it s look not well construct but i have a meeting.



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