[Bug 433799] Re: core R package in universe nags me to install proprietary software at every start-up

[Nathaniel Smith]

Thanks for the patch. As it stands, I don't think it really fixes the
problem -- it just makes the ad more vague. (It now simply prints
"REvolution R not installed." at every startup.) This is still clearly
an ad -- there are thousands of things I don't have installed, including
many R extensions, and no-one feels the need to remind me of them every
day! But now it's an even less useful ad. This seems like the worst of
both worlds.

As for whether it's SRU-able... I dunno. Either the Ubuntu community
agrees that this is a betrayal of their philosophy and users, in which
case it seems SRU-able if anything is, or else they don't, in which case
there is no bug.

I apologize if words like "betrayal" in the previous paragraph sound
like hyperbole, but with all respect, Scott, I don't think you realize
the extent to which this bug is playing with fire. It's a small thing by
itself, but to many people it seems to threaten a fundamental shift in
Ubuntu's philosophy. In Debian, this would be an automatic release-
blocker and... I don't even know, get the developer who put it in kicked
out of the project or something. Importance -> Wishlist is... perhaps
not sending the right message.

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core R package in universe nags me to install proprietary software at every start-up
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