Ubuntu
ubuntu-meta package

Separate accessibility packages

Bug #40334 reported by Richard Laager on 2006-04-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #40306: Should have accessibility meta packages. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)	New	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

ubuntu-desktop depends on various accessibility stuff. I would prefer to not have to install all of those packages, which I'm not going to use. I know I could manually remove them (and thus ubuntu-desktop), but I want to keep ubuntu-desktop for upgrade reasons.

If there was a separate ubuntu-accessibility package, which was installed by default, and ubuntu-desktop "Recommended:", I'd be set. I could remove ubuntu-accessibility, but keep the benefits of having ubuntu-desktop installed.

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alistair (alistair-tyeurgain) wrote on 2006-04-20:

Agree, absolutely!

There is absolutely no justification for having a general-purpose install loaded with a specialist features (in terms of numbers of users). Questions of political correctness should not influence this decision.

IMO, this is exactly the same issue as to whether the default install should include minority-interest features such as enterprise volume management.

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Richard Laager (rlaager) wrote on 2006-04-20:

Well, I'm not arguing against it by default. Having the accessibility features installed by default is a good idea, as if you needed those features, it'd suck trying to install such a package when you didn't have the accessibility features to help you navigate the package manager. Granted, there might be accessibility concerns with the installer, but those could be remedied as well.

I wouldn't be against an installer option to install the accessibility packages, though.

In any case, if it was a separate package, those people that don't want those packages could easily remove them and still retain the benefits of the ubuntu-desktop meta-package. That's what I'm requesting here.