Update manager and synaptic

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:56:55AM -0800, George Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 23:46 +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > 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 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.
> 
> Asking users to "edit" and remove "universe" is really not an option.
> If universe shows up in the list then you select it and remove or un-
> check the repository.  That is what 99% of users are going to try and it
> won't work properly. 

While I agree that it's something that needs to be improved, I'm
really nervous about changing it one week before the release. I will
have a look what is involved, but I would rather like to wait to not
introduce more problems.

Thanks,
 Michael

P.S. I would appreciate if you could report a bug about it so that the
issue is not forgoten. 
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