[Cialug] Unborking Feisty Fawn

[Jeff Chapin]

Message: 7 Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 15:23:30 -0500 From: "Todd Walton"
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Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:

> > This distro team told me to say that anytime I get the opportunity.  :-) 
>   

Couldn't this distro team clip dist-upgrade from the apt-get source?
Maybe a judiciously placed comment character or two?

-todd


And that is EXACTLY my problem with Ubuntu. No matter how good they are at what they do (and I do like the install and how many things "just work" that used to take effort...) the fact that they are Debian based, but don't bother to let you know when you are doing things the wrong way.  "Apt-get install kde" breaks a LOT of things, and can leave a system unstable, but "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop" downloads different versions of the same packages, and it doesn't break stuff. I am going to assume that dist-upgrade would break something as well. Being a big fan of Debian, I thought that it would be pretty easy to get used to Ubuntu, and I just finding my self doing things the "wrong" way. And the people in #ubuntu  seem to take delight in pointing this out.
Well, that's my little rant.

Ok I lied,, one further issue...  the whole "download another iso" thing drives me nuts. Whatever happened to having options in an installer, anyway?

Jeff Chapin