I tried to upgrade to Edgy

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:39:39PM +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 06:14 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > Would it surprise you to find that you were a member of a tiny minority of
> > users who experiment this way?  Most users use the desktop they are given.
> 
> No offense, but this gets weirder and weirder. I have worked in a
> software development company with several hundred users which was mainly
> powered by GNU/Linux, and of course every developer could run the DE
> he/she preferred, and as in Daniel's case this meant that more than one
> was installed on many computers.
> 
> As a home user I would certainly expect to be able to install more than
> one *ubuntu-desktop, especially when the packages don't conflict.

You *are* able to install them, as you have noticed.

> If this trend of lock-down continues, the reasons to choose Ubuntu over
> Windows start to diminish. It is certainly a valid choice for Canonical
> to take Ubuntu this way, but I hope you realize you'd lose a significant
> portion of your current users on the way.

There is no "lock-down", nor trend thereof.

> > I see no reason to make this impossible, though it could quite easily become
> > so on its own.  
> 
> I don't get this: on the one hand you call it odd to install both and
> you seem to more or less expect that it breaks upgrades via Update
> Manager, but at the same time you see no reason to express this in the
> dependencies. Why?

It's not intended that the upgrades break, but there was a claim in this
thread of that happening, and I think it may be related to this selection of
packages.  There is, however, no bug report I can find corresponding to it.
If you are able to reproduce such a problem, a bug report would be much more
welcome than this kind of commentary.

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 - mdz