[Foresight-devel] Re: Two flavors of FL?

[Ken VanDine]

We could actually add a flavor to the group and build both versions
from the same group-dist.  We do this already for ati and nvidia.
Would be trivial to do that for OOo + firefox and gnome components.

We need to see how the new OpenOffice.org will shape up with the
localization fixes that are happening now.


As opposed to forking, I would like to improve the QA process to make
things more stable.  We really just need more testers and a process.
Slowing down updates is not the right thing to do.  That just means
our hardware support gets worse.  Things like hal, udev, and the
kernel need to keep moving forward.  With each new release the range
of supported hardware grows.

--Ken

On 4/21/07, Thilo Pfennig <thilopfennig at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> Just a quick idea:
>
> Can't we just build Foresight on the base of two different group-dist?
> Therefore I suggest that we have one flavor:
>
>  - OO.org
>  - Firefox
>  + with Abiword, Gnumeric, Gnucash, Dia (potentially more)
>
> as default. So two different builds
>
> Generally this could be a more GNOME friendly build.
>
> How would one want to do that? Make a group
> group-dist-alternative and then cook this?
>
> I would like toi have this build for those who would rather use only
> GNOME tools. Maybe a good idea would be in future to have this as a
> DVD that is the GNOME live DVD and also to install Foresight linux
> with a GNOME flavor.
>
> Personally I have started a project Vincis Foresight Remix:
> "http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/flxen/"
> where I would like to build a more stable Foresight with much more
> focus on GNOME and with much less new packages and maybe in future a
> longer support while keeping the link to Foresight Linux. I welcome
> everybody to join (also as owners) to play with that idea. Right now
> its just a very basic test. And I dont know where this will be going.
> In the future I would like to integrate this into the core project if
> possible but right now I do not want to interfere with other
> development focuses or even force a big discussion. So again: Anyone
> who like to play with this idea, also will be accepted as dev and all
> owners in core FL will be accepted as owners here also.
>
> Thilo
> --
> Thilo Pfennig
> http://issues.foresightlinux.org/confluence/x/R
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