PPA feedback / questions

[Sarah Hobbs]

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Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:52:27PM +1100, Sarah Hobbs wrote:
>>  
>>> This is now unneeded - the components in PPAs were blown away a few
>>> releases ago, and everything gets put into 'main'.  However, this 'main'
>>> is not like ubuntu 'main'.  This is somewhat covered in the quick start
>>> guide, although it does not explicitly say that ppa main != ubuntu main.
>>>     
>>
>> We could rename main to only or single or something, for PPAs, perhaps.
>> It might still be confusing though.
>>
>> Hmmm. We could also call the component "ppa" and use that as the
>> differentiating mechanism to Ubuntu primary. Is that a crazy idea?
>>   
> I'd prefer that PPAs aren't additional complexity for new users and
> developers. Pushing everything to main simplifies things for people who
> don't know about components, making it a new component could have the
> opposite effect.
> 
However, clearly a lot of people are used to having multiple components,
and so get confused about why the package that is normally in universe,
in the ubuntu repositories, shows up in main now.  This can probably be
solved with better documentation.

Hobbsee
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