[Bug 1930914] Re: ubuntu-minimal depends on ubuntu-advantage-tools

[Bartłomiej Żogała]

It's not about 2.6Mb storage space taken. It's about what those 2.6Mb of
logic does, how transparent the whole process is and how many potential
security vulnerabilities it may introduce due to not having one
transparent entrypoint for activation. You are exactly following
Microsoft way to telemetry, where there are multiple toggles around the
system but telemetry it's already so deeply integrated that you never
can be sure if it was completely disabled.

You do benefit not only from your paying customers base but from whole
open source community work up to day. Including this portal and all
feedback passed automatically/manually from users which run Ubuntu on
their hardware. So saying that you don't care about non paying customers
seems a bit arrogant here.

Isn't the fact that you have seperate restricted repository backed on
the same concept of lack of full trust ? There is whole group of people
who e.g don't have Nvidia software on their hardware and they have a
chocice, why they shouldn't have the same choice with Canonical software
?

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Title:
  ubuntu-minimal depends on ubuntu-advantage-tools

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  This is counter to #1566183 There is no reason to enforce desktop
  users who manage machine on their own to install ubuntu-advantage-
  tools, especially when this is 'minimal' version.  This should include
  only essential packages to make the OS functional

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: ubuntu-minimal 1.450.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-73.82-lowlatency 5.4.106
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-73-lowlatency x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.18
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  Date: Fri Jun  4 18:54:56 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-01-29 (491 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-06-27 (342 days ago)

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