Getting new packages into Ubuntu

[Sebastien Bacher]

Le lundi 10 octobre 2011 à 12:34 -0400, Scott Kitterman a écrit :
> What rationale would there be for doing that for just Universe?  There
> are 
> lots of leaf applications in Main and lots of libraries in Universe. 

I think we should consider differently the system and the softwares so
the using main and universe there might be wrong yes...

Using Ubuntu with Unity (or GNOME) as an example the "system" would be
the plumber, plymouth, lightdm, the desktop shell and the features
integrated with the desktop (image and documents viewers, file manager,
etc). That part should be under a strict process, respect freezes, etc. 

Then we have all the applications stack, basically things that microsoft
users would go to install from the internet or that you would get from
the appstores, those have no reason to have their freezes, schedules,
etc tied to the OS itself or to the shell, they should be easier to
update and be able to follow the rhythms upstream want to use for their
softwares...

Does it make sense?

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Sebastien Bacher