Recent Security vulnerability in Skype

> The majority of stuff in restricted and multiverse.

which comes back to an old minor pet peeve of mine:  in my mind
restricted should only be enabled for Ubuntu installations that need
it for specific hardware.  (I suspect it is not easy from a technology
point of view; if it was, I guess it would have been done  a long time
ago).


On my home desktop, since I'm lucky enough hardware-wise to do it, I
always remove the restricted repo  after a new install, and delete the
associated packages that came with it (the restricted kernel modules,
and I believe something related to nvideo).  Then I feel a bit more
"free", and the kernel security upgrades are a lot smaller to download
:)


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Daniel Robitaille