[clue-tech] The Ubuntu step-child.

[Angelo Bertolli]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> Why is it that kubuntu and edubuntu are both part of main, while 
> xubuntu is part of universe (looking for the xubuntu-desktop package 
> and xfce*)?
>
> Silly me, to think that after installing from the xubuntu CD I only 
> needed to have main and restricted to upgrade.  That's a fairly small 
> mirror to make (6GB, I think) to have the rest of the stuff you might 
> want to install.
>
> But no, the xubuntu desktop stuff is in universe so I need to mirror 
> that.  And the xubuntu project doesn't provide their own separate main 
> to hold that stuff.
>
> So now I have to decide whether to mirror universe (an extra 14GB).  
> The alternative is to use the xubuntu install CD to upgrade.  I assume 
> I won't need any extra software (this system is pretty vanilla) from 
> universe but does software in universe get updated between releases?
>
> It looks like it probably does, whenever.  Anyone have any experience 
> mirroring ubuntu?

No, but I might have run into this when installing/upgrading before.

http://www.mail-archive.com/xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com/msg04575.html

Angelo