About Hogs and Distros (slight tangent)

[David Bain]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 08:31 -0500, demon666_nl wrote:
> using ubuntu-desktop as a meta-package that installs other meta-packages
> is more flexible. If you break ubuntu-desktop you might only break
> ubuntu-desktop and one of its meta-packages. You can more easily pay
> attention on what you're breaking. For example you can think : "I need
> application X but it breaks meta-package Y that's okay but I don't want
> to break other meta-packagaes in the future."
> 
> related to this topic are the "user templates" of grumpy
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/GrumpyGroundhog
> 
> 
> -- 
> demon666_nl
> 

WartHog, HedgeHog, GroundHog, my head is spinning, how many hogs are
there? :)
Will Ubuntu eventually have a non-hog release? 
What animal will they move to? :)


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