Public bug report changed: https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/32951
Comment: An unstable version can be subject to some minor issue, that's one due to ubuntu-desktop is taking some days to be update. I agree that's not perfect, but people tracking a working distribution have to accept maintainers are working and it can create some glitches by moment. 1. ubuntu-desktop is here to make things easy for you. You may disagree and come with a better suggestion that would be nice. It might not be ideal, but there is no obvious way to do the same thing in a better way 2. "However, it is recommended that you keep it installed, because it is used to carry out certain upgrade transitions (such as adding new packages to the system)." ... that's exactly what is happening with that case. By not accepting the tradeoff you just say that you don't accept the responsability of your actions for something described to me, that doesn't seems to be so fair. 3. By using a Depends you force people to install it. There is no way for them to uninstall that later. Debian is about choice and flexibilty and they decided to not force people to install samba if they want to. The "Recommands" is the tool for that, those package should be installed by default, which gives the feature to normal users and let the option to power users to remove the package. Here comes your point 5., you are probably right that synaptic should install them by default, that would have make that transition transparent for you without forcing people who do want to use samba to keep it installed 4. As said before that's an unstable distribution, people are working, things are moving, some annoyance happen. We try to keep that a smooth as possible but nobody is perfect. Usually those issues are fixed quite quickly 5. That's a good point. Some cleanup of "Recommends" should probably happen first because some package use for some stuff instead of "Suggests", but that's probably the right way to go Thank you for the interest to the distribution and sorry for the glitch on that -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
