Fixing the FAQ guide

Alexander Poslavsky alexander.poslavsky at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 12:59:58 UTC 2005


matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com wrote:

> Robert Stoffers writes:
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>> Sean,
>> Yes, this also has the effect of commenting out everything with a
>> copyright issue (such as w32codec, libdvdcss2) :)
>
>
> We really can't have reference to unofficial repositories in any
> official guide released with the distro. That includes marillat and
> backports (as they are now) IMO.
> M
>
I saw something like this on ubuntu-users as well, but this is one of
the main reasons people read the docs! They want to install w32codec and
libdvdcss2.

We all know why w32codec and libdvdcss2 are not in the regular
repositories but everyone (that I know anyway) installs them anyway,as
it is the only way to watch DVDs etc. If it is not documented how it is
installed people will say that ubuntu is a bad distro etc and leave, or
start looking for documentation in another place, and stop reading the
wiki or docs on the computer.

Just explaining why it is not there and how people might get it might
make some users happy imho. These are low-hanging fruits. Easy to solve.

greets, AP




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