Current Tenative Outline:
I want to make a distribution based off steamOS. From what ive researched valve switched to debian because of legal reason with the ubuntu trademark. So this would appear to rule out ubuntu as the base to distribution(unless I am legally allowed to redistribute a distro based off ubuntu). So I plan on using debian 7.1 as the base as valve chose to do. I am planning on making the DE kde. I want to use kde 4.12. Eventually when kde5 gets to the point where it is stable enough to use I want to be able to install that. I also want to use homerun as one of the launcher options. And I also plan on using the muon suite as the package manager. All of these will have to be compiled from source to work with debian 7. I have a list of applications i plan to include in my distro and I will probably have to compile some of these applications to work. And then I will have to make a source repository to host these changes. I will inlude the steamOS repositories also and pick choose what I need off this. I will be using remastersys to build my images. So first off, does anyone see any problems with my tenative plan so far?
Next I have a list of questions about how go about creating my system:
- * What is the best way to go about getting these applications(specifically kde 4.12) working with debian 7?
* Can I use ubuntu repositories instead of debian repositories or am I going to have to manually add packages I want from ubuntu to my own repository?
* Should I use the testing and unstable branch instead to base this off of?
* I have read a little bit about apppinning and backporting. Is this going to be my best bet to custimize a distro based off debian?
* I know this question may not be a very good one to ask on the debian forum, but would basing it on ubuntu 12.04 make more since given my needs?
* Also is there anything I am missing in what will need to be done?
Thanks.