online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Dennis Kaarsemaker:
> On ma, 2006-06-12 at 08:28 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>> a negative review of Dapper in tectonic.com:
>>
>> http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026
>>
>> Reading between the lines  it seems one of their problem was a missing
>> ubuntu-desktop before attempting the Breezy==>Dapper dist upgrade
>> which led to a whole list of missing applications after the upgrade
>> (including OOo)
> 
> And as always user error makes a distro suck.... sigh...

That is certainly not a user error - upgrade paths shouldn't depend on
having ubuntu-desktop installed. Upgrades should work nicely without the
meta-package.

Having said that, obviously it's a lot more difficult to make that work
properly. It's still a bug though.

Matt
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