( managed to screw up my last reply )
Ned Slider wrote:
I agree with Dag that solution providers shouldn't be able to sell it as CentOS if it clearly isn't because they've modified, disabled or removed key parts of the system.
who defines what is key and what isnt ? We can come up with a list of what 'we' consider to be 'vital' for the system to still be refred to as a CentOS based install - and we should do that ( isnt that what the wiki page in question is trying to do ? )
The community can't be expected to support it when we (the community) don't know what a solution provider has changed or why they have changed it.
well. thats a good question. But my question to you would be - what makes one user a part of the community and another not ?
Flip side is, we only need to make a best effort - after all, the $provider of $BrokenSystems should be the upstream support group for these people, no ? If they wander down to the centos mechanisms they are welcome to.
So we're back to the question of what can and can't be changed in a system for it still to be CentOS.
For it to be exactly CentOS ? nothing can be changed. Nothing added, nothing removed.
For it to be a reasonable CentOS'ish install ? I am sure we can come up with a list.