ubuntu-desktop metapackage - options?

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Christian Leber wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:39:09PM +0000, Alec Wright wrote:
> 
>> So what does everyone think? could this be acheived in fesity, or will
>> we have to wait until feisty+1?
> 
> I don't get it, why should somebody be annoyed by them?
> They just use a few MB diskspace and little traffic when updates, that's it.
> 
> Such an option would be a waste of development time, not more and not less.
> 
> There are people who like waste of time... they are free to make fake
> packages of firefox etc. when they feel better this way.
> 

A few megabytes is important to any dial up user. Little traffic is
important to those who pay too much for bandwidth. development time, on
the other hand, cannot be wasted: it is voluntary. If someone who knows
how to code prefers to volunteer and write that code, you get your
feature. I don't see the waste...

It's not like without this user's new idea, the volunteer would
otherwise fix a critical bug or anything. Almost everyone prioritizes
bugs over features...

I don't quite like how feature requests often get labeled as "that's
some waste of time", "that's so lame", and so on...

I feel it would be nice not to provide this kind of feedback to people
who use the software and want more out of it...

thanks.