Canadian version of Ubuntu

[Mathieu Charron]

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That could save us a lot of work and pain.

Maybe we could make our own repository for special binaries/src/art, and add
the entry to the source.list. So, we could add stuf without rebuilding the
"EasyCanbuntu" each time.

I don't know what all this innvolve (the repository) but I guess that could
work nicely and easily

Mathieu

On 8/4/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/4/06, Darryl Moore <darryl at moores.ca> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 19:43 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> >
> > > I would suggest that a better approach is to create something like a
> > > "EasyUbuntuCanada" script or application  that runs on  a standard
> > > Ubuntu installation and install these different pieces and artwork for
> > > the user; probably asking along the way which bits the user want.
> > >
> >
> >
> > If the main idea is to make the installation of legal (per Canadian law)
> > "Restricted" codecs easier, then this does not accomplish that.
> >
>
> why not?  That script can do what you want it to do.  It can install
> extra packages from ubuntu reposititories.  It can also install extra
> packages from whatever other source you want, legal or illegal from a
> non-canadian point of view.   So instead of creating a whole 700mb ISO
> containing your canadianized-Ubuntu distro, you host instead your
> smaller bits of binaries you want offer  (i.e, your codecs), and the
> script install them for the user.
>
>
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