possible FQA: debian and Kubuntu compatibility; Xemacs

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Rich" == Rich Johnson <nixternal at ubuntu.com> writes:


   Rich> |     -  Can  debian package be installed under

   Rich> Some packages can be installed, and some cannot. Of course
   Rich> the MOTU goal is to make sure that all packages are
   Rich> interoperable like that.


   Rich> # APPLICATIONS
   Rich> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
   Rich> universe  
   Rich> multiverse
   Rich> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main
   Rich> restricted universe  

   Rich> multiverse
   Rich> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main
   Rich> restricted  
   Rich> universe multiverse


[snip]

Thanks for the information. Why isn't your setting standard? That is
why isn't universe part of the standard installation.  With respect to
the interoperablity --although I presume this is already the subject
of blogs and flame ars--, I almost adore Kubuntu for its ease of the
installation and the superb configuration. However the fact that it is
not 100 % interoperable let me doubt to use it. Btw why isn't there in
the Kubuntu website a package search the way Debian provides. If you
hadn't answered my question I don't know whether I would have figured
out that XEmacs is in the universe tree.


Uwe Brauer 
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