Re: Road map--or some such.

[Marco Gerards]

Wolfgang Jaehrling <address@hidden> writes:

> 1.) Did you think about what software we want to include?  I strongly
> favor to not include thousands of redundant window managers, editors
> and e-mail clients (and whatever).  It is enough to include the most
> important packages; of course we have to prefer GNU software, so we'd
> use GNU Emacs rather than XEmacs, gcron rather than Vixie cron.  In
> some cases, we might also want to provide additional non-GNU packages
> if they are very popular.  Does this sound like a reasonable policy?

Perhaps it would be better to provide packages.  Everyone has his
favorite editor, window manager, etc.  Except the practical
disadvantage for many people I am worried about custom repositories
filled with non-free crap.  If there is already a repository of
software people will use that.

Of course this does not have to be part of the core distribution.
Just call it extra, non-gnu, contrib or whatever is a good name.

IMHO it should be easy for people to access Free Software, even if it
is not GNU software.  So something like apt or the ports system might
work really nice for that.

Thanks,
Marco