Recent Security vulnerability in Skype

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 09:44 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> > 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).
> 
The trouble is that the table of what driver supports what is in the
driver, so you need the driver on disk if you want to opportunistically
load it.

Also you're then denying the ability for someone to upgrade -- if they
later purchase a laptop with an Atheros card, and use the same hard
drive/image, then they suddenly can't get on the Internet to download
the driver.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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