[Ubuntu Chicago] Project Idea

[Rich Johnson]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, John Becker wrote:
| >It occurred to me today that many of us Ubuntu'rs cringe when people
| >mention Automatix. Is anyone aware of an Automatix like project that
| >does things the "Ubuntu way"? Automatix is so popular because it adds
| >all of the bells and whistles that most people want added to Ubuntu
| >anyways.
| >
| >Why don't we start a project to automatically add all the cool bells and
| >whistles without the upgrade problems that Automatix has for Ubuntu?
|
| I LOVE this concept. The original Automatix was a Bash script whose code
| was a tutorial for adding 3rd party functionality to Ubuntu. It got very
| complicated w/multiple files in an attempt to track update history.
| Automatix2 is written in PHP or Python, I guess.

Automatix is now written in Python. The thing is, it is still a script and 
uses unsupported repositories. It is these repositories that destroy peoples 
systems during an upgrade.

Scripting something like Automatix would only be a about a 1 hours job, the 
hardest part being the names of all the packages. Plus now that 7.04 is 
about, they have the Easy Codecs now which does pretty much what Automatix 
does, just correctly. 

If we do go this route, then we would have to ensure we use 
*archive.ubuntu.com repos only, and doing so wouldn't give you all the junk 
that Automatix gives you. Thoughts?

-- 
Rich Johnson
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