Przemek Klosowski wrote:
Spins make sense when there is a deep-reaching feature that touches
a
majority of packages on the system. Examples include:
- the desktop environment with all the supporting runtime libs
… and applications!
Our spins also select core applications (file manager, text editor, web
browser, word processor etc.) which are part of the desktop environment.
I don't understand why 'Electronic Design Lab' is a
separate spin: if I
install all the EDA-related packages that it contains, would I not get
an equivalent capability?
Yes, but having a spin with them already on it is much simpler for its
target audience. (That said, I wouldn't use it since they moved away from
KDE to GNOME. :-/ If I needed FEL, I'd rather either groupinstall their
comps group on a KDE spin install or install individual apps.)
Kevin Kofler