KUDOS -- Unofficial Kubuntu FAQ

[matthew.east.ubuntu at breathe.com]

Rob writes: 

> On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 09:23 -0400, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>> Spent some time helping out people on #kubntu today and someone kept 
>> recomending to newbies two things that I'm not quite sure we should be. 
>> 
>> The first is a sources list found at http://giannaros.org/sources.list which 
>> inlcude backports, are we recomending backports and automatically adding 
>> universe to things?

> In the official FAQ I have removed backports from the sources.list.
> There is no need to use backports anymore apart from installing such
> things as livdvdcss2, something we cant recommend people do anyway
> (patent/copyright issues). Universe however is in there.

My view on backports: we can support them, as for breezy the backports 
repository _should_ be official and on an Ubuntu server. Equally any legal 
problems should be resolved if the backports are to become official. However 
at the same time I believe that it is important to give users the ability to 
choose whether to activate backports or not: there is an information gap 
that we can fill by explaining properly in our guides what the activation of 
backports entails, and what the pros and cons are. 

Matt