PPA feedback / questions

[Mark Shuttleworth]

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.
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