I completely agree with Ian: let's just get rid of GDebi & Co. installed by default, thus requiring the users to copy/paste commands to a console. This is IMHO the best warning we can provide, and daring/being able to start a console and do this is already a check of the user will and capacity at the same time.
Now, as Alexander says, we must provide easy ways to install missing packages that are approved by Ubuntu. Else we will only be boring users when they install a normal system. We need a list of all reasonably needed packages to make a standard Desktop run (encrypted DVDs, drivers, backports...) and of known trustable repositories. What I like in Ubuntu, it's that constantly new outlooks emerge to create completely new designs that will be fit to the Desktop for a long time. With upstart it was great; today, we are concerned about what we will become when Ubuntu is the first OS used in the word. That's what we need to think of, and that's no joke! ;-) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
