On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 12:44:13PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > This is a fundamental difference between main and universe. There may be > > a case for an exception in the case of particular packages (bitcoin is a > > recent example), but in the general case I don't think it makes sense to > > not offer the packages. Users have a choice as to what they do right > > now, and also have the choice of contributing fixes. Removing packages > > takes that choice away. > > No. The difference is that for Universe there is generally not someone with > an > @canonical.com address paying attention to them. There are plenty of > Universe > packages that are well maintained and updated. Some by Canonical people and > some by others. While there is some correlation between Main/Universe and > package maintenance, it's not as close as you might think.
Right - what I mean is that there exists an assurance that all packages in main are looked after by Canonical staff for security updates. This assurance doesn't exist in universe. I didn't mean to suggest that some universe packages aren't looked after - just that there isn't such a sweeping global assurance of it. > > Instead, users can always opt to not install universe packages (eg. > > remove it from sources.list). There's also an argument for not having > > universe enabled by default, but I think that a decision was made a long > > time ago before I was around on this point. I guess it could always be > > revisited, but would probably be one for the technical board to make a > > final decision on. > > No. We have one set of sources.list for all of Ubuntu right now. Many > flavors > provide packages from Universe, so this would break things and be hard to > implement sanely. I was thinking of server - presuming that drupal is primarily run on server installations. Perhaps this assumption is wrong - but it should be fine to disable universe on a server without breaking anything, right? Robie
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