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

[Matthew East]

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* 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 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. 

I remember that the Ubuntu developers used to say that it was important
to support upgrade paths without relying on ubuntu-desktop. I don't know
if that policy has now been jettisoned, but I would certainly agree with
everyone on this thread who has said that the problems people have
encountered with upgrading simply because they used the command line
rather than the graphical interface have encountered a bug.

Matt
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