online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 11:52:09AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > The appropriate solution is to provide an upgrade path from one release to
> > the next which does the right thing, and we do that, starting with
> > Breezy->Dapper.
> > 
> I disagree.  You make me reinstall *ubuntu-desktop, first, which does NOT do
> a proper upgrade to my system - forcing me to uninstall many apps I've
> already uninstalled once before.  Besides which, such an upgrade path
> doesn't actually exist if you uninstalled *ubuntu-desktop, as is clearly
> permitted in the package definition, back in the early Breezy days.

As has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread, the metapackages are
easily removed unintentionally, and restoring them is a feature.  This is
the most efficient way to ensure that appropriate packages are installed for
a properly functioning desktop in the new release, and as you say, you can
easily remove packages later which you don't want.

Recommends support will alleviate your difficulty when it is implemented.

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 - mdz