Update manager and synaptic

[Michael Vogt]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:53:44AM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> I've introduced a couple of new users to Ubuntu (new Ubuntu users) and a
> common complaint is the listing of repositories in synaptic and the
> update manager.  Their compliant and I have to concur, is:

Thanks for your problem report.
 
> If they add the universe repository then only the universe repository
> shows up in the list.  If you then disable or remove universe, the list
> is now empty and Hoary main must be added all over again.  Further more
> they have no way of knowing (other than cating /etc/apt/sources.list) if
> main is actually enabled or not as it doesn't show.

I don't quite understand. When I open the repostiory editor in
synaptic and click on "Add" and then check the "universe" checkbox
(under components), it will add "universe" to the reporitory. It does
not remove "main" (the "Officially supported" component) from the list
of sources. 

If you later want to remove "universe", you need to click on the edit
button and remove "universe" from the "component" list. The problme
seems to be that a single source can have multiple components (like
"main", "universe") and that removing components is something
different than removing all the source.

The latest version of update-manager comes with a "Help" button that
also explains about the repository editor. I'm happy about suggestions
how we can make the behaviour easier for the user :)
 
Cheers,
 Michael

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