<div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/22 Dereck <<a href="mailto:dereck@gmail.com">dereck@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 wrt: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/241920" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/241920</a> I am wondering why an e-book of Dive Into Python is installed by default on all Ubuntu Desktop installations? I personally don't quite see the use to most users, even those who wishing to learn python. I myself downloaded a copy of this e-book from a google search because I didn't know it was already on my system long ago. The compressed package takes about half a meg and installed uses a little over 4 megs. It's not a great savings, but I think there are other things that could be of greater value to our users.</blockquote><div> </div></div>Good catch ! Even if this free book (LGPL IIRC) is a very good one, it's strange that this one has been seeded as a dependency of ubuntu-desktop (maybe because python is installed by default ?). For your information, I am in touch with the French translator to update it (it is becoming old and some fundamental notions like the object base class are not taken into account) and publish it in a paper version. We will try to push our changes back in the original (English one) version. Didier