RestrictedFormats

[Corey Burger]

On 6/21/06, Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote:
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> Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 21:18 +0000, archis wrote:
> >> So the complexity and relative length is still there but we're also offering
> >> three (!) different routes to approach restricted formats: a quick-n-dirty
> >> 'cheat sheet', a detailed section, and links to EasyUbuntu & Automatix as well.
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> > I believe that the general opinion on ubuntu-dev is that automatix
> > should not be used. I also remember ArnieBoy saying he wouldn't be
> > making it dapper friendly. Shouldn't we remove that suggestion?
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> I think someone else has took over maintaining it now.
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> As for suggesting it, I think on IRC automatix and Easy Ubuntu have the
> same warnings (for social reasons rather than technical I understand).
> Perhaps if we remove automatix EU should be removed too.


Automatix is a definite no. A hostile upstream plus breakage just
makes it awful. As for EU, it is maintained by people who actually
care and know what they are doing. They are also quite reasonable when
responding to suggestions. That being said, IMHO, the doc-team should
advocate suppported solutions over non-supported ones.

Another minor point, by the time the person is already reading our
docs, installing EU/automatix is actually one *additional* step over
the existing instructions.

Corey