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

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 17:12 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
>> If it doesn't work is has to say that it doesn't work. And there has
>> to
>> be a way do do an upgrade by CLI.
> 
> Maybe I fail to see something here, but AFAICT it does and there is.
> Just follow the upgrade instructions

It doesn't if you've ever removed the *ubuntu-desktop package.  The
developers keep insisting that the only proper way to do an upgrade is to
ensure that the desktop package is already installed, but since the desktop
packages all say that it's safe to remove them, I still consider it a bug.
-- 
derek