On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Agustin Benito Bethencourt <abebe@suse.com> wrote:
derivatives/spinoffs/personalized distros (Studio) are options that today are somehow based on the fact that we ship a distro with "everything" (or a lot). Then you reduce the number of pieces and/or substitute some... to adapt it to your needs.
Maybe I'm unique, but I have used susestudio in exactly the opposite way. I built an initial boot CD / appliance. I then noticed that for my use case, lots of tools were missing and were not in the OSS / Packman repos. Some were in devel / home projects on OBS. Most simply were not packaged for openSUSE. I started a packaging effort specifically to start getting more packages onto my susestudio appliance. Once they were packaged in my OBS home project I decided to push them to a devel project and then to factory. It was often only a little extra work and I got the value add of having both technical and legal reviews of my packages. The same seems to be true of some of the other susestudio appliances. Look at this one as an example <http://susestudio.com/a/F78UZ4/opensuse-edu-li-f-e-12-3-64bit>. Look at all the OBS repos it pulls from: Includes the following unofficial sources: ==== graphics 12.3 , GNOME:Apps , Education 12.3 , home:namtrac:subpixel 12.3 , Cinnamon 12.3 , home:cyberorg:liveextra 12.3 , Packman All 12.3 , X11:Sugar 12.3 , Vblade 12.3 No custom software packages were uploaded. ==== Note that cyberorg is the producer of the susestudio appliance and he is packaging something in his OBS home project for inclusion on the appliance. Thus my impression is that susestudio appliances are not subsets of opensuse factory / packman. Instead they are supersets and many susestudio appliance builders are in turn OBS users creating packages for their appliances. I don't know how to do it, but I very much feel that the openSUSE project fails to leverage the fact that it has 10's of thousands of advanced users building openSUSE based appliances over at susestudio. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org