[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Jan Claeys]

Op zo, 02-07-2006 te 21:33 +0200, schreef Mario Vukelic:
> On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > It's too easy now to inadvertently remove ubuntu-desktop because the
> > dependencies are insane. 
> 
> And it's no problem to remove ubuntu-desktop, just make sure you
> reinstall it before dist-upgrading, because otherwise important packages
> might not get installed.

I just look regularly what packages ubuntu-desktop tries to bring in,
and if there is anything that looks important I'll install it (or at
least go read whether it might be needed or not).

> I agree with you that ubuntu-desktop is a kludge and better methods are
> needed. I don't think the Ubuntu devs haven't notice too, but I'd guess
> it's not a trivial problem.  

AFAIK this will be fixed at least partially for Edgy Eft (several
specifications around this problem were discussed in Paris).

-- 
Jan Claeys