[Gllug] Cost of RedHat vs Ubuntu desktop support

[Nix]

On 7 Jul 2009, John Edwards told this:
> Having said that there is one annoying thing about Ubuntu, and
> that is the lack of quality of packages in the (un-supported)
> universe/multiverse sections.
>
> Here the packages are often just imported from Debian, repackaged but
> not tested. Bug fixes are left to the Debian maintainer and sometimes
> not applied. Example is the cfengine2 packages, which are have several
> bugs in 8.04 and 8.10.

Of course the nice thing about Ubuntu is that it's close enough to
Debian that you can add the Debian testing/unstable sources to your
/etc/apt/sources.list, pin them way down, then apt-src things from them
explicitly as needed, satisfying build-depends from the Ubuntu
repositories automatically.
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