enabling universe by default

Shawn Christopher schristopheraz at gmail.com
Mon May 16 01:19:21 UTC 2005


Matthew S-H wrote:

> And is there any problem with universe?
> I just ran a dist-upgrade with Universe enabled. Is this likely to 
> cause problems?
> (I am not too worried about /security/, as I am not running a server, 
> but I don't want decreased stability, decreased speed, or for any 
> features to stop working.)
>
> ~Matt
>
>
>
> On May 15, 2005, at 7:53 PM, Sam Tygier wrote:
>
>     hello
>
>     i was just wondering why the universe is not enabled by default? i
>     understand that the multiverse has problem packages leagalwise,
>     but the universe is ok, right?
>
>     we have the little icon in synaptic to say if a package is
>     supported or not, so what are the problems of making it slightly
>     easier to install extra programs.
>
>     sam
>
>
>
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I believe the reason it is not enabled by default is because stable has 
a mandate (I could be wrong) to be maintained by the project owners 
however universe does not. Therefore why force as default that you have 
no obligation to maintain where the parts that you do have to maintain 
make up most of your time anyways.

Shawn
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