Debian fork

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 10/23/14, Don Armstrong <don at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Joel Rees wrote:
>> If the debian community is not unfriendly to a fork (particularly as
>> an alternative to the acrimony about systemd), why would some
>> discussion here be inappropriate?
>
> Because the fork would no longer be Debian, and it has nothing to do
> with the support of Debian. Debian has lots of forks and derivatives,
> but they were formed by people actually sitting down and doing the work,
> not agitating for the fork/derivative on Debian mailing lists.

Ack.

And besides, there are plenty(1) of options(2) which are a far better
way to go than a full fork.

(1) https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends
(2) https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives

Option (1) is preferable, even with some custom packages, to minimize work.

At some number of custom packages/ rebuilds, your "blend" would
effectively be a instance of one of the many variants listed at (2).

Further guidance/ suggestions:

(3) https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines

Working together, is almost always preferable to "separating from" or
worse "working against".

Enjoy,
Zenaan

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