Re: Anyone here?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> On 17 May 2003 22:48:46 -0400
> Jeff Tickle <jwtickle_at_jtsoft.net> wrote:
>
>>I'm interested in the project as well, but it just seems to be dead.
>
> Intimate might well be dead, but Familiar is going strong. The
> familiar_at_handhelds.org gets at least 5-10 emails a day.

The thing that bugs me a bit about Familiar is ipkg. Why was it
developed? What advantages does it have over .deb? It just seems
a little strange to make a packaging system _almost_ like .deb
but just different enough to be incompatible.

It seems to me that it should be possible to make an embedded
distriution of Debian that fits in the iPaq RAM while using
the existing package system. Surely some packages (e.g. kernel
modules) will have to be split but that may be something that
could be useful to Debian proper anyway. I was hoping Intimate
would be headed this way.

Thoughts?

                             -Dave

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