non-free should just work

[Hobbe Olson]

Couldn't you provide some scripts/commandos/packages that can download
say, flash, java and other plugins/programs from the makers site and
set then up for the user?

I know you think that everything installed should be through
debian-packages so upgrading/uninstalling/etc should be an easy task.
but the packages could only cointain the .list files and a control
file the rest is download from other places?
doesn't mscorefonts work like that? and mscorefonts is in the universial.

/Hobbe

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:48:41 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:22:29PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Any opinions on the desktop-nonfree meta package idea?  It seems
> > something like that might save people some trouble (both on the user
> > and support sides of the fence).
> 
> If it were a simple matter of arranging for packages to be installed, we
> could do it by default.  However, unfortunately, it is not so simple.
> 
> --
> 
> 
>  - mdz
> 
> --
> ubuntu-users mailing list
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users
>