I tried to upgrade to Edgy

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:56PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:42:10AM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> > > 
> > > From the sound of it, your friend had an odd selection of packages
> > > installed (both ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop?).
> > 
> > There's nothing either wrong or odd about that.   
> 
> It is decidedly odd, and is likely to confuse the upgrade tool (which
> attempts to determine whether you're running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.).

in a multi-user environment I'm not sure it is so odd
to be able to give the option for users to use whatever desktop
environment they want independent of what other users on that machine
use.

For example at my workplace we configurate all our desktop computers
(currently Dapper)  with the exact same sets of packages to simplify our
system admin life.  But since some users use KDE, and some Gnome, and
any user can sit at any one of these desktop and expect to be able to
login into their standard environment (the /home filesystem is shared
via NFS across the office for that reason),  all our computers have both
ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop installed.

I have always expected Ubuntu (at large) to be able to deal with
multiple *-desktop meta packages installed.  If it is something frown
upon for technical reasons then make them conflicting with each other.

I personally have run with multiple -desktop packages installed for
testing and bug testing purpose on my home laptop, but I have never
tried an upgrade in that configuration

Daniel