I tried to upgrade to Edgy

[Matthew East]

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* Daniel Robitaille:
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:19:56PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:42:10AM -0600, Conrad Knauer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From the sound of it, your friend had an odd selection of packages
>>>> installed (both ubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop?).
>>> There's nothing either wrong or odd about that.   
>> It is decidedly odd, and is likely to confuse the upgrade tool (which
>> attempts to determine whether you're running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc.).
> 
> in a multi-user environment I'm not sure it is so odd
> to be able to give the option for users to use whatever desktop
> environment they want independent of what other users on that machine
> use.

+1. Again, when considering what upgrade paths to support, we should be
looking at what users do, rather than necessary what seems odd. Loads of
users run more than one desktop.

> I have always expected Ubuntu (at large) to be able to deal with
> multiple *-desktop meta packages installed.  If it is something frown
> upon for technical reasons then make them conflicting with each other.

Spot on.

M
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