[Foresight-distro] Re: Just got started with foresight, Have some questions

[Jonathan Smith]

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Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Jonathan Smith <smithj at foresightlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>>> Well, I would not suggest to BEGIN with that.
>> That is what conary is explicitly designed to support. There's no reason he
>> shouldn't start there if that is his end goal.
> Well sure, but iss nicer if you know conary and Foresight before you
> make a distro of your own. Sure its possible - but if you havent
> looked at conary before I would not suggest to start with that. Even
> if conary makes such things more easy I would not see this as a
> trivial task. Its much easier to add packages of your own or tweak
> some packages at first. This is what I think 95% of the people want.

I'd agree. But apparently that isn't what *he* wants :)

> And even he or others are successful an making a distro of their own
> it is questionable if it wouldn't be easier if one could just make a
> conary updateall and get all those changes.

Thats just not true. The group-resolution code is vastly different from the
update code. And, for many purposes, it leads to a much happier life when
maintaining a desktop system (I do this, and I know at least 2 others who do so
as well).

For reference, the entire group is really simple. Take a look for yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/3aza9k

	smithj

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