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  <title>Debian Pure Blends</title>
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<author>
  <name>Andreas Tille</name>
  <email>tille@debian.org</email>
</author>

<version><date></version>

<abstract>
This paper is intended for people who are interested in the philosophy
of Debian Pure Blends (in short "Blends" if it is used clearly in
internal Debian context), and the technique that is used to manage
those projects.  For those who are familiar with the concept of Custom
Debian Distributions: We just found a new name for this concept
because the old name just not expressed what actually is done.  It is
explained in detail why Blends are not forks from Debian, but reside
completely inside the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and which
advantages can be enjoyed by taking this approach.  The concept of
metapackages and user role based menus is explained.  In short: This
document describes why Debian Pure Blends are important to the
vitality and quality of Debian.
</abstract>

  <copyright>
    <copyrightsummary>
      Copyright &copy; 2004 - 2011 Andreas Tille, Ben Armstrong
    </copyrightsummary>

    <p>
      This manual is Free Software; you may redistribute it and/or
      modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
      published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.0, or
      (at your option) any later version.
    </p>

    <p>
      This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
      <em>without any warranty</em>; without even the implied warranty
      of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  See the
      GNU General Public License for more details.
    </p>

    <p>
      A copy of the GNU General Public License is available
      on the World Wide Web at <url
      id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" name="&urlname">.  You
      can also obtain it by writing to the Free Software Foundation,
      Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
    </p>
    
    <p>
      You can find the source of this article 
      <url id="http://git.debian.org/?p=blends/blends.git;a=tree;f=doc/en"
           name="in the Git repository at git.debian.org">.
      It is also available as Debian package <package>blends-doc</package>.
    </p>

    <p>
      A <url id="debian-blends.en.pdf"
           name="printable version in PDF format"> will be built
           from time to time.
    </p>

  </copyright>
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