Install report

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:50:37PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:

> I've got a list of about ~100 packages we use here that aren't included
> in the 'main' part of ubuntu.  Most of it is developers tools and
> crufty-unix-stuff.  2/3 of it is stuff I have to have.  The remaining is
> non-free and nobody-really-uses-it packages.

I would be interested to see this list, especially with a note here and
there about what makes these packages indispensible for you.  This feedback
helps us to fine-tune our package selection.

> I did see the 'universe' dist but I haven't investigated it until I find
> out what its for.... so, what is the universe dist for?  My guess is
> that its just 'unsupported rebuilds from sid' that happened to work on
> the buildd's, but I didn't see any documentation yet to that effect.  If
> so, I would probally grab the remaining packages out of there and test
> them out to make sure they were usable here and start supporting them
> locally.

That's correct.

> Right up there with nis for the 'I think more than just cs.umn.edu would
> really need this' is autofs.

Now under consideration.

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 - mdz