General question about universe/multiverse

[Daniel Carrera]

Neil McLeod wrote:
> Is there any reason not to enable all the universe/multiverse 
> repositories?

I always enable them. What's different about them is that those packages 
are not officially supported. That's why they are not enabled by default.

> Doing so just gives me access to additional software 
> packages, not different versions of the same software, right?

Right.

> (In other 
> words, I want to receive more options, but don't want to accidentally 
> download a community-maintained version of a package rather than an 
> official one.)

It's safe to add them. I always add them. I would not add them on a 
mission critical server (e.g. they might not get a prompt security 
update) but for any regular desktop user it's fine. I'm giving an Ubuntu 
desktop to a new non-techie user and I enabled universe and multiverse.

Hope that helps.

Best,
Daniel.
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