On 05/02/07 08:08, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > > Maybe I should not have made such a broad statement. You are right, the > feature will help many non-skilled people. On the other hand, there are > many environments (like companies) that simply don't want their users to > install packages (or plugins, for that matter). In the end, the > companies are responsible for the software that is installed on their > computers, and certain packages are not installed in Ubuntu for good. > > Take the MP3 gstreamer package(s) for example, they are not contained in > main because of possible patent problems. If a user installs it on a > company's machine, that company might get sued by the patent holder. Or > the user might install an unstable package (one of the ugly ones) and > then have problems and calls the companies helpdesk without knowing that > its the unstable package causing the problems. > I would suggest that in the scenario that you put forward the corporate desktop user would not have permission to install anything, so this would not be a concern.
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