I tried to upgrade to Edgy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:15:35PM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> 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

There is no inherent reason why it shouldn't work, but you should not expect
it to be a well-tested configuration unless you test it yourself throughout
the Ubuntu development cycle.  Upgrade testing is already complex enough
without multiplying the test cases this way.

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 - mdz