[Bug 817617] Re: Repositories not auto enabling. Should be an option

[Manfred Hampl]

In my opinion the problem in
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/166195 is
caused by the following fact:

The standard repositories distinguish between main, universe, restricted and multiverse.
As far as I know PPAs and their contents are not classified in the same way.

A package in a PPA can have dependencies from all four categories of the
standard repositories. I did not find any place where I can easily see
if a package in a PPA depends on any package that is contained in the
universe or restricted or multiverse repositories, except by going
through the dependencies and checking their location one by one.

So it seems to me that the following recommendation has to be given:

Whenever you enable a PPA, the only reasonable setting is to have all
four categories of the standard repositories (main, universe,
restricted, multiverse) enabled as well (unless you want to check
dependent packages one by one).

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Title:
  Repositories not auto enabling. Should be an option

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Wine needs some packages from multiverse and universe repo. If these are not enabled then apt-get will report an issue. If the command can recognise these are required then automatically offer to enable the repo then this can be avoided. Please see:
  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+question/166195

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: apt 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jul 28 17:17:13 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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