On 1/1/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok. Here's the situation. When you install Ubuntu, you might (like me) not want Firefox, and prefer Epiphany instead. You might prefer mozilla thunderbird over evolution, or BMPX over Rhythmbox. If you are one of these people, you probably get rather annoyed that you have to keep Firefox, Evolution and/or Rhythmbox, or remove ubuntu-desktop, hence not receiving any updates to the desktop metapackage.
Standalone Epiphany isn't possible yet in Ubuntu. I think it's fixed on using Firefox even if Debian implemented the use of xulrunner already. The Ubuntu changelogs says they don't do xulrunner, only firefox. I guess the inclusion of Firefox is a market strategy, because alot of people knows firefox, I think it's one of the reason they are drawn to Ubuntu. But being an open source sympathetic person, I prefer Epiphany, because the more people are using it, the more it will be known and be developed, and somehow it will be much better than firefox, and will gain acceptance. Here's the idea. The ubuntu-desktop metapacakge should allow different
options for the dependencies such as mozilla-firefox OR epiphany-browser OR iceweasel, evolution OR mozill-thunderbird, rhythmbox OR bmpx etc etc.
Metapackages is an important concept in the management of a distribution. There should be a greater discussion about the use of it. For example, in the area of settings management and delta patches, instead of editing the xorg.conf to make use of the best settings for ATI, just install a metapackage to automatically set it up for you. Joel -- Carpe Diem
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