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We need to see how other people could customize Ubuntu to create their own distribution.

There is a lot of people who want create their own distribution but based in Ubuntu. We need try to figure out how make easy this.

Only in Spain there are about 4 regional governments and around 4 o 5 universities who want to base their distribution in Ubuntu.

Cases:

We need to make easy change branch stuff (see BrandingForDerivatives) and the rest of changes
The system must be stable and easy to maintain
Every change should be in a single package (name: package_changed-version-versionOfChange-config or something like that)
All the Gnome stuff should be configured through Gconf.
There is a need to identify the type of derivative before the start of development.
Hypothetical Change Set and Launchpad can ease up the creation of derivatives.
The packages must make a backup of the original configuration and to have a postrm script to put back that original configuration
Would be interesting to have a application to customize the distro and extract all the changes as a packages (something like the Branding System what is planned to create from the Metadistros project)
And is even better to put all the artwork, selection of defaults applications and stuff people could like to customize (bookmarks, "About $Distro", Desktop aspect, etc) in a single package (or group of packages join in a metapackage or virtual package) as a Distro profile or Distro theme.

Discuss about tool for customization or "Distro theme"... or both.
Try to figure out the better way to do that kind changes (in the most of the cases)
See how use the branding stuff in this topic

Write down all the diferents points where the people who customize a distibution could change something (at least, teh most of them)

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