Ubuntu Guide

[matthew.east at breathe.com]

Hello there, 

I work in the Ubuntu Documentation Team, and I was looking through your site 
(http://www.ubuntuguide.org) recently. I am slightly concerned that some of 
the content is misleading and I wanted to bring it to your attention: 

The first thing that really concerns me is that all users are instructed to 
add the backport repositories and the marillat repositories (stable, 
unstable AND testing), regardless of the programs which they need to 
install. As you may know, this causes several conflicts between packages 
which appear in both repositories (for example mplayer, which appears in 
several marillat repositories as well as ubuntu universe). 

I have encountered several cases on irc recently where this has caused users 
systems to break. 

A further thing that I noticed (I did not read the whole guide) was that you 
advise users to disactivate initscripts in a way which violates debian 
policy and can cause problems if users wish to use a proper method of 
altering their initscript services. For further information please see this 
document: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit 

I hope that you will be able to take these comments into account and amend 
the guide accordingly!! 

Something that struck me is that if the guide could be brought into the 
context of the Ubuntu Documentation Team, better quality control of the 
document would ensue, and from our point of view, we would be able to 
improve the quality of the local documentation supplied with the Ubuntu 
system. 

What are your thoughts? I look forward to your reply! 

warm regards, Matthew.