Migration to Dapper

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 24 02:06:27 UTC 2006


Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:47, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>> It would be interesting to try to find out how many people actually
>> use Ubuntu without _any_ outside (ie, outside apt, not just
>> non-Ubuntu) packages.  I have a directory containing the tarballs
>> of anything I've downloaded outside apt - there's only 10, and most
>> of them are obsolete. One should be replaced by a .deb this week.
> 
> My own observations tell me that the vast majority of users just use
> apt. If it's not in the Ubuntu repositories, they don't install it.

That's my feeling - though I had no data to back it up.  I'm reasonably
adventurous, but I just don't see the point, most of the time, to install
anything that isn't prepackaged.
-- 
derek





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