On 8/8/07, Mathias Gug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > The Universe and Multiverse repositories are enabled by default on a > fresh ubuntu-server install. This change was implemented as of Feisty > and outlined here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlwaysEnableUniverseMultiverse. > This specification is target for desktop users. > > I was wondering if that situation also applies to the server. > > On one hand, a server user may be more cautious about installing > unsupported software. One the other hand, I've read and heard of lot of > users stating that they had to enable universe anyway to install some > software to make their server running.
My experience has been that there is a lot of software that isn't in main that is widely used and well tested, and used in a lot of server environments. Examples of this for our servers include amanda, puppet, and nagios plugins, and the ISC dhcp software. I also noticed that quite a few packages that I would have suspected were in main aren't, such as apt-file and apt-mirror. I think that most sysadmins are primarily guided more by their knowledge of metadata about the packages, such as who the software is written/maintained by, how widely it is used in other production environments, etc. than they are about what repository a package is classified under by Ubuntu. And since a lot of trusted and widely used server software is not in universe, I suspect that relatively few servers don't have any universe packages whatsoever on them (OTOH, I would be surprised if there were many servers with multiverse packages...) > So do you enable the universe repository on your server installs ? I just checked some of our servers, and saw that we have quite a few packages installed from universe. For others who are curious, you can check how many such packages you have installed with something like this: dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | xargs apt-cache policy | egrep "$(lsb_release -c | cut -f2)/(uni|multi)verse" | wc -l -- Evan Klitzke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
