Re: Debtags and Blends tasks pages

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> - To componentize Debian Jr. so that people can pick and choose only
> those parts of it that are relevant to them.  It would augment our more
> rigid, coarser categorization in our metapackages and may even be good
> enough to either simplify it (reducing it to, say, three or four basic
> groupings rather than the ~20 we have now).

Sounds like a reasonable strategy.  The reasonable number of
components might differ from Blend to Blend.

> - To expand on our core with some recommendations of software that Jr.
> users might find interesting outside of the core.  Strict control over
> the workflow isn't needed, and indeed isn't even desirable to
> accomplish this.

What do you have in mind by "strict" control?

> It would allow us to update our recommendations after
> the release has gone out without having to upload new metapackages and
> may be a more democratic process for making such recommendations.

I fail to see what you mean with democratic.  Could you try to
explain in more technical terms?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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