Comment 2 for bug 1055866
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| Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote Re: Combine all official derivatives differing only in default desktop environment to single distribution | #2 |
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Actually all of these official derivatives are merely meta-packages in the archive. Therefore after the installation, they are in essence the same.
Collapsing all of these together doesn't make sense, as I will most likely not use most of the applications offered by different desktop environment, as they are not the most suitable once for the choice of my desktop environment. Plus that would be a waste of downloading stuff I don't want, nor need.
The installation media you are after are netinstall or mini.iso. Which are tiny images that offer to install any of the above flavours effortlessly by pulling the relevant packages from the archive over the internet.
This is defiantly not a bug in ubiquity. As ubiquity is simply one of the two installers we use across all the flavours and other unofficial derivatives.
All individual flavours exist because there is a target audience for those, dedicated communities of developers and users. Ubuntu is highly versatile community and it is one of it's advantages that we have these diverse flavours with their own branding, websites, irc channels etc.