online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Conrad Knauer]

I also didn't send to Sounder on this one; BTW, the newly filed bug is
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/49524

CK

On 6/12/06, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recall not that long ago helping a friend of mine (who has been
> using Linux longer than I have) with problems in Dapper after
> upgrading and at one point I told him about such-and-such program
> which he said he didn't have installed; I immediately realized that it
> was because ubuntu-desktop wasn't installed (as it was a dependency)
> and reinstalling it fixed things.
>
> At the time I didn't think much of it because he linkes to tinker with
> his system, but I wonder indeed if this isn't happening fairly
> frequently.  I'll file a bug report on that; hopefully the issues they
> were having at tectonic can be resolved fairly quickly now that the
> root cause appears to have been diagnosed.
>
> CK
>
> On 6/12/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> > On Monday 12 June 2006 17:55, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > > On ma, 2006-06-12 at 11:46 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > > How in the heck is that user error and not a bug?
> > >
> > > ubuntu-desktop doesn't 'just get removed'...
> >
> > It gets removed when people on this very list tell users that it's
> > just a meta package and that its total entire purpose in life is to
> > pull in all dependencies for the desktop. The comment field in
> > Synaptic even says you can safely remove it.
> >
> > So then the user removes it.
> >
> > If that causes dist-upgrade to fail it's a bug.
> >
> > --
> > If only me, you and dead people understand hex,
> > how many people understand hex?
> >
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
> >
> > --
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> > sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/sounder
> >
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