Matt: ubuntu-desktop metapackage request

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:07:39AM EST, Joey Stanford wrote:
> Now that I know why the decision was made, it makes more sense to me (as
> well as the unattended install requirement I saw on launchpad).  For the
> future (etch+), I would encourage the Accessibility team to consider an
> accessibility metapackage (e.g. ubuntu-access, kubuntu-access,
> xubuntu-access, or something similar) which would install items like
> brltty, gnome-accessibility-themes, etc, instead of including them in
> the desktop metapackages.   I occasionally do installs for special needs
> folks and this would help me and the people I'm assisting by making the
> install a little easier. Although I will admit that Dapper now installs
> most of the important things automatically (at-spi, gnome magnifier, etc.).

If the tools were not installed by default, I would agree, however since 
we are aiming to include accessibility on the CD by default, I don't see 
any point to this, as everything is already installed. All the user has 
to do is load the software.
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