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[Eric Feliksik]

Corey Burger wrote:
> This is already planned, but the code is not written yet. See:
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/CommonInstallHook
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Corey
> 

I understand this is aimed at such things as shares-admin, gnumeric-doc, 
etcetera. It looks like it's also aimed at packages from multiverse.
But what problem does not installing these packages prevent or solve, 
that are absent when delivering these packages with a detour?
I'm not objecting to the idea. I understand Canonical doesn't ship some 
software by default, because they could sued and stuff. But I see 
explanations of how to get the unrar and mp3-codec etc. everywhere, also 
on Ubuntu-(Canonical) wiki. The software can be obtained from Canonical 
servers. Aren't we just as accountable then, as when we ship it by 
default? Where is the line?

Thanks,
Eric