Enabled repositories in default install

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:17:10PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:42:26 +1000, John Skaller wrote:
> > The intent here is simply that the package is not supported by the ubuntu
> > distributors.
> 
> But what does that mean, exactly? And how would you explain it to your
> metaphorical sister?

The way that I usually explain is to link to this page:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/components/document_view

If that isn't clear enough, suggestions to improve the language are welcome.

> "Unsupported" is scary and makes it sound dangerous to use - is it? If
> it's not dangerous then maybe it should be enabled by default. If it is,
> then maybe the existence of universe needs to be re-evaluated.

This is something of an oversimplification.  Universe is both potentially
broken and potentially useful.  That's more or less the point: the quality
of packages in universe can vary greatly, depending on how much attention a
particular package has received, whereas packages in main are held to a
higher standard.

-- 
 - mdz