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Why is Debian the way it is?
(blog.liw.fi)
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.
It is not different from pretty much any other distribution. You must tryst your upstream. If distro decided to get root access to a box it is has simpler way to achieve it.