enabling universe by default

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 08:11 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > "All of this software is compiled against the libraries and using the
> > tools that form part of main, so it should install and work well with
> > the software in main, but it comes with no guarantee of security fixes
> > and support."
> 
>   Yes, I know all of that. But. Maybe an installation process should 
> have a reqeuster with text alike to this one and an ability to enable 
> Universe? Or maybe not, because installation should be as simple as 
> possible. Maybe a first Synaptic run could hint that? Just thinking out 
> loud.

  I strongly agree with the "installation process should ask" thing. 
  True, this should come with some recommandations and explanations, but
not enabling universe and multiverse *will* put users into trouble
(availability of packages), and there is no point having a simple
install procedure if you do it at the expense of deferring problems.
  Same goes for hoary-updates and hoary-security repositories.

  I think a hoary install should end up with a /etc/apt/sources.list
like this :
------
## Hoary
## Security
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-security main restricted
universe multiverse
## Major bug fixes
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary-updates main restricted
universe multiverse## Main archive
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe
multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary main restricted universe
multiverse
------

-- 
Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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