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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 07:06:57AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 15:50 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I don't see where
> > the rumour has come from that it works any less than it used to.
> 
> >From people not installing ubuntu-desktop before upgrading

Ubuntu has always used these metapackages to arrange for the addition of new
packages to the default install upon upgrade, and so this problem has always
existed in Ubuntu.  update-manager provides a way around the problem, but it
isn't any more broken than it previously was.

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 - mdz