On Thursday 22 May 2008 4:13:40 pm Norbert Hartl wrote:
> I have stages
>
> - squeak (the downloaded unmodified source)
> - bootstrap (patches like Delay, Semaphores, etc)
> - base (core packages)
> - app (deployable unit)
>
> Every stage is invoked with a startup script that patches the image
> and saves it to the next stage. That is exactly what a debian
> maintainer will do. Collecting some patch scripts (Smalltalk can
> patch itself :) ) and combine them with original source to a debian
> package.
Tracking dependencies and conflicts across patches, packages and VM is one of 
the strengths of Debian and a weakness in Squeak.

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