Enabled repositories in default install

[Martin Alderson]

They are not supported by /ubuntu/.

Don't take things so personally - the fact is that universe is very
non-descript and the frankly, absurd amount of terminology that is in
the Ubuntu dictionary makes Microsoft's marketing literature look
crystal-clear.


On 6/26/05, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 27.06.2005, 06:42 +1000 schrieb John Skaller:
> > Anyhow the Debian names make more sense to me, and it seems
> > silly to change them for Ubuntu, since the categorisation concept
> > is the same.
> but the categories and their contents are completely different and
> ubuntu simply isnt debian, even if it inherits a lot of it.
> 
> >
> > I mean really, 'universe' isn't enough so we have
> > to go to 'multiverse' .. why not Galactic Empire? :)
> its just a cooler name for universe-nonfree-and-suspicious-licensed
> 
> > I was really confused by 'restricted' too, what the heck?
> > Hey, I'm over 18! Show me that R-rated software now!!
> restricted are the pieces that are not allowed to be distributed in
> debian main by the debian policy but are distributed in ubuntu
> nontheless.
> 
> > The thing is, 'restricted' is exactly the opposite:
> > its actually the supported non-base applications,
> > which one should feel most free to install ..
> > one should feel less restricted about it than the
> > unrestricted universe about which one should tremble
> > and backup before installations .. :)
> who told you that ?
> 
> there are at least 20 MOTUs spending a lot (if not all) of their spare
> time for you to make this packages work right and to give you support
> for them, why do you make such offending statements here and just ignore
> their work ?
> 
> can you imagine how much work it is to care for 16000 packages with only
> ~20 people ?
> 
> universe is _not_ unsupported !
> 
> oli
> 
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