Enabled repositories in default install

[Ante Karamatić]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 00:04 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:

> That is the case of any support avenue: people post complaints but not 
> satisfaction (normally).

If you look it from another angle, they are complaining on main, not
containing packages they need and have in any other
distribution/operating system. Main isn't good anough for them.

Don't get me wrong. Main really is great. Most of the Ubuntu success is
because of good main. But telling that universe is something that's
unsupported is bad, bad marketink. Yes, I know Ubuntu doesn't have
marketing, but it shouldn't have bad marketing either.

If there would be main, that would be compatibile with Sid packages,
then there will be no need for universe in form it is today. But that is
imposbile with package managment as it is in Debian and Ubuntu. So,
universe is very important part of Ubuntu distribution. Making some sort
of run away from it means loosing users and, even worse, running away
from comunity. And that's not what Ubuntu is all about.

> Are there any stats on how many ubuntu boxes are out there?  I wonder if we 
> combine all the web logs of the repositories and look at IP.  Not perfect, but it 
> would be a number.  If there is 100,000 IP's, then a few 1000 complaints is nothing.

No, you can't combine web logs. There is many ADSL users who's IP
changes daily. There are many laptop users who move their laptop cross
different ISPs. And there are computer hiding behind singe IP (NAT).
This are three groups that I'm aware of, mostly because I could fit in
any group just named (I do have laptop, my ADSL changes IP daily, and I
have over 60 Ubuntus behind NAT).

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