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This is rather silly. The CrunchBang maintainer's reasons for discontinuing the distro are spot on. It's absurd to fork the entire distro, adding a delay on pa
by subway 12y ago
This is rather silly.
The CrunchBang maintainer's reasons for discontinuing the distro are spot on. It's absurd to fork the entire distro, adding a delay on package updates from the upstream distro just for the sake of defining a default set of packages.
Create a complementary apt repo for any packages you need that aren't available upstream (CrunchBang has very few of these), and perhaps spin an installer image that installs Debian with your preferred default package set, but for the love of god, stop adding lag to the process by which your users receive security updates and bugfixes from upstream.
- gareim 12y agoDidn't Crunchbang do that already? It's been a few years since I last used it, but I remember the sources.list pointing directly to Debian's repos and there was a special Crunchbang repo for small things. Maybe I'm remembering wrong though.
- 2ion 12y agoNo, this is correct. It's the Debian stable repository + a supplementary Crunchbang repo.
- fugusaurus 12y agoYou are correct.
- not-a-hacker 12y agoIt's neither silly nor absurd. I can't get a crunchbang-like setup from Debian, and many who can don't care to spend the days it takes to do so (it's not just Debian with Openbox... go try it yourself?). Debian's stability and security is sought by many Linux users, but the default DE is a far cry from what certain users are looking for. That group of users ranges from novices to the skilled users who are developing crunchbang's successor at the moment.