Fixing the FAQ guide

[Robert Stoffers]

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Just had a quick check on acroread and flash player, yes you are right.
As the faq guide is written for breezy I assumed (wrongly) that one
still had to pull these packages from the other repos. I will rewrite
these sections instead when I get a chance to reflect them now being
included in the Ubuntu repos.

Rob

Matt Galvin wrote:
>>Acroread and Flash Player are in the Marilliat repo
> 
> 
> These are in breezy in multiverse so no need for marilliat anyway:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/acroread
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/acroread-plugins
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/text/mozilla-acroread
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/breezy/web/flashplayer-mozilla
> ...
> 
> 
>>Corey Burger wrote:
>>
>>>Backports are built specific for Hoary, unlike Marilliat, and are
>>>unlikely to cause the issues that Marilliat did.
> 
> 
> Right you are.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but...
> 
> These documents are being geared for breezy, correct? I think just
> about everything in backports is already in breezy (latest gaim, mono,
> firefox, etc...) with the exception of decss and such.
> 
> Regardless of their legality, is backports even needed at all at this
> point. The packages in it (at the moment) are redundant. They are only
> there b/c people couldn't wait a few months for .x updates.
> 
> Does backports even have a breezy repository yet? I image they will in
> a few months when firefox 1.0.5 comes out and people can't deal with
> 1.0.4 any more ;)
> 
> As far as libdvdcss2, that is just one package, we don't need backports for it.
> 
> Users could be instructed to just grab this (with warnings):
> 
> http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/1.2.8/deb/libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
> sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2_1.2.8-1_i386.deb
> 
> and be done with it. Thats all they really want and need anyway.
> 
> Sorry if i sound a bit rant-ish. I just think the standard
> repositories including *verse's already have everything needed expect
> for decss and a few java apps and some of those are starting to get in
> anyway.
> 
> Matt
> 
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