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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/08/2014 02:30 PM, Nathan Thompson
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAEhU4t4P6eYsOF_oF-bPu=TWtYkh2Nyav9b+ZwXJOjb4z7QsEw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Even if I were to tell the people working on this
distribution that they are re-creating the wheel, they would still
do it for the learning experience.</blockquote>
<font face="FreeSerif">"The learning experience" is quite likely the
single justifiable reason for forking an entire distribution based
on some personal disagreement or irritation with one component
provided by the parent distribution.<br>
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I've ranted about this before. Fragmentation kills. On the idea
that the result of this KDE3-specific distribution is just a
learning experience, just to provide a one-off for a few people to
experiment, fine, knock yourself out. But it still represents a
net loss of energy to furthering Linux in the marketplace, energy
that would be better spent elsewhere, and that is the answer to
the "Why not?" aspect.<br>
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Even at all of this, the heart of this learning experience is
packaging. One can gain that experience in learning how to
generate packages that fit into an existing distribution's
packaging architecture <i>without</i> having to indulge in the
creation of Yet Another Linux Distribution Fork Monstrosity.<br>
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://karl.kleinpaste.org/.../rants/fragment.text">http://karl.kleinpaste.org/.../rants/fragment.text</a> (from this
mailing list) which also regarded, as it happens, the question of
choice of desktop...because evidently nobody anywhere has ever
been happy with anyone else's desktop, for some reason that
escapes me.<br>
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[ I had to re-send this because ofb.biz blew me off <i>this</i>
time, but not for my <i>previous</i> note half an hour before,
with a bounce-o-gram complaining that my message was
"unsolicited." Um, bite me, OK? Tune your mailer better. The
undesired appendage on Subject is what the bounce-o-gram required
of me for this to get through this time. ]<br>
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