Basic Packages

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Definition

Basic Packages are those packages necessary to create Crystal ROCK and Bootdisk distributions; both - when combined - form the ROCK Linux example distribution.

Description

Basic Packages

  • must work at any given time.
  • must not be placed in personal repositories (for example: package/blindcoder).
  • may only be placed in the repository package/base or logical repositories like package/x11 or package/kde.
  • must have the flag CORE in their .desc file.
  • may not be changed without review.
  • may have a Maintainer or [M] flag different than 'The ROCK Linux Project', for example '[M] Jim Random Hacker'.


The counterpart to Basic Packages is Third Party Software.

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