Xorg was removed.. without an alternative

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

On 10 July 2013 21:41, Robert Park <robert.park at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
> joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps it would be wise to disable the option in the GUI with a proper
>> explanation of this? It's obvious that proposed _might_ break things, but
>> it's certainly not obvious that it's not intended for humans when there's a
>> GUI to enable it.
>
>
> The issue is that it's only in the *devel* pre-release when it's not safe
> for humans to enable it. The GUI for enabling it needs to exist because
> there are scenarios where humans should be enabling it: people using older
> stable releases who are crippled by some bug or other, and need to test
> SRUs sooner rather than later.
>

Sure, but then you check to see if you're in a pre-release. If so, then add
a label saying proposed isn't available for pre-releases, otherwise add the
normal controls. How hard could that be? :)
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