Googling for "codec good bad ugly" returned as its first result, http://thomas.apestaart.org/log/?p=537. This has a reply from the GStreamer release manager about the decision.
The first comment to this blog post suggests that it would have been clearer to use the names: plugins-stable "good" plugins-experimental "bad" plugins-nonfree "ugly" Personally I like Spaghetti Westerns, but I do think the "stable"/"experimental"/"nonfree" labels would be better here. -- Installing codecs exposes "bad" and "ugly" terminology https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146167 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
