Ubuntu Studio built by Canonical using Universe.

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* "Cory K." 

| Getting all the packages Ubuntu Studio uses into Main. I
| respectfully say I don't see this as a viable option as we use MANY
| packages from Universe. Here's our package list as of Feisty:
| https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList

Can you make a split of this list between what's already in main and
what isn't?

| I don't see this as a option for 2 reasons. Time involved in getting
| these packages into Main and more importantly, I feel there's no way in
| hell all the packages even would be accepted. :)

If they're in such a bad shape that they are not suitable for main, I
don't think releasing them as a product to be supported for 18 months
is a good idea. 

| So. What can be done? Only thing I can think of is that the normal build
| process could be modified to included building from Universe. I'm sure
| this can be done as we have built our disks this way. It might just be a
| matter of resources which I'm sure are tight atm.

No, it's not a matter of resources, but of policy.  We would really
like to avoid pulling in bits from universe to build ISOs.  This might
be ok for Ubuntu Studio, but it is not in any way ok for Ubuntu
itself, and having the build scripts not knowing anything about
universe is a very good way of ensuring that.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are