Please don't leave or fork Kubuntu

[O. Sinclair]

IOn 28/05/2015 18:36, Steve Riley wrote:
> On 2015-05-28 at 08:43:38, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't see any benefits in "going Debian" or other suggestions I have
>> seen on the net.
> 
> Numerous benefits exist for rebasing on Debian.
> 
> Kubuntu strives to be as pure of a KDE distribution as practicable. This means that some of what Canonical/Ubuntu develops is unnecessary for us. LightDM, Unity, Mir, Compiz, Scopes/Lenses, and Snappy come to mind, of course. Kubuntu packaging work has largely transitioned from Launchpad to Debian's Alioth (and then just copied to Launchpad). All that we rely on is the core of Ubuntu, which is essentially Debian.
> 
> Rebasing on Debian would eliminate unnecessary distraction and the bitter politics that continually accrete around Canonical/Ubuntu.
> 
> ...Steve
> 
There is an enormous amount of things going on in the *buntu ecosystem
that is not needed for Kubuntu/KDE. But there are, I will argue, huge
benefits from said ecosystem for users of KDE.

Debian is of course the base for *buntu but as we all know way slower in
releases and more "conservative". That is why distros such as Tanglu
exist, and for that matter Ubuntu.

I certainly do not agree with Unity, Mir and so on but I simply do not
install them. I think Kubuntu benefits from the ecosystem and should do
what we/they can to "hang in there" until this is sorted.

And if we talk bitter politics well neither Debian or kernel are good
examples ;-)

kind regards
Sinclair