DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Damn Small Apt Repository

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Many of the non-system applications in DSL are independently compiled and a couple of the applications are actually pulled from Slackware derivatives.

I understand that, John, and I wasn't suggesting that you or any of the other developers do this personally. While I don't have the time to reinstall my machine for testing purposes, I can help build and maintain packages to support a repository. I do believe that it will, eventually, save you time, as outlined in my original post.

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I think l0st meant that DSL is a (relatively) small project, and maintaining an apt resource of it's own is a larger scale operation than is feasable. (for now anyway?)

I agree. I also pointed out in my original post that due to the small amount of DSL-specific packages, it would be easier to maintain a repository for DSL. One wouldn't require a package for every app included in the distro, just the gotchas that aren't provided by standard Debian repositories. Examples include: Xservers, the patched Dillo, gLinks-hacker,??? There are apps installed that aren't packaged in debs, but I'm not sure if these unpackaged apps are there out of expediency or necessity due to the lack of an existing package. There exists, for example, a prepackaged version of zile, but DSL uses a statically compiled executable. Why? I don't know. I'm not a developer.

If it's possible, I'd like a list of apps that need deb packages so that I can begin work on a DSL-specific apt repository. I can be reached at grim@grimthing.com

original here.