What does it actually mean to create a distro though? Is it just what software you package in your flavour of debian?

To be an independent distro it should at least have its own package manager.

spjt 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

The last thing the world needs is another Linux package manager. F-Droid uses apt and it could hardly be considered Debian.

It's an interesting question though, that I haven't thought about. At a minimum I'd say that it should have some sort of coherent goals and philosophy, its own package repository, and should not be replicable from its parent distro with a script to install/remove various packages.

The last one is probably the most critical, if it can do something the base distro can't, then it at least has a reason to exist, whether or not you want to call it a "distro" or not.

	▲	LauraMedia 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		To me, a "distro" always was a prepackaged system that includes everything you need to use (it for). Of course there are major distros, they build their own systems and packages and bundle them with their main releases. But then there are also subdistros, that build other/more packages for a different experience (think elementaryOS).
	▲	voidUpdate 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I feel like I've seen a load of "distros" that are just ubuntu with different packages or a different default DE or something
	▲	Hasnep 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> F-Droid uses apt I think you mean termux

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4gotunameagain 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or its own package repositories ! There are many excellent package managers out there :)

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voidUpdate 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Don't loads use apt?

	▲	ginko 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah and they're all Debian derivatives, IMO.