Got an invitation to UbuntuOne today and was interested to test things out.
Went to the site to find out more and found the installation instructions. First step was to install the PPA. Ok. No big deal, have installed a few PPA's before. They had a button and it led to a download of a .deb package. "Nice, they have a smarter way of doing this!". So I started up the installetion of the .deb package and answered YES when I got the question about installing it.
No more information about what it was installing. No more questions.
So after it finished, I started to look around to see if it had installed anything more, because it was obviously adding more than a PPA (downloading for some time).
I found to my disbelief that it had installed a few Gnome programs (and no doubt dependencies) that I did not need, did not want and was never asked if I wanted installed!
This is totally disrespectful and dishonest. If you say you are going to install a PPA, then you install a PPA. Not a bunch of extra crap! This is a tactic that is much more worthy Canonicals Redmont competitor!
As you might understand, I am really angry at this point and want this crap out of my computer immediately. I want control on everything that goes into my system. It is running very OK now, and I want to know what I am installing.
Do anyone know of a way to find out what the last install added to your system? Is there a log somewhere that lists this?
Went to the site to find out more and found the installation instructions. First step was to install the PPA. Ok. No big deal, have installed a few PPA's before. They had a button and it led to a download of a .deb package. "Nice, they have a smarter way of doing this!". So I started up the installetion of the .deb package and answered YES when I got the question about installing it.
No more information about what it was installing. No more questions.
So after it finished, I started to look around to see if it had installed anything more, because it was obviously adding more than a PPA (downloading for some time).
I found to my disbelief that it had installed a few Gnome programs (and no doubt dependencies) that I did not need, did not want and was never asked if I wanted installed!
This is totally disrespectful and dishonest. If you say you are going to install a PPA, then you install a PPA. Not a bunch of extra crap! This is a tactic that is much more worthy Canonicals Redmont competitor!
As you might understand, I am really angry at this point and want this crap out of my computer immediately. I want control on everything that goes into my system. It is running very OK now, and I want to know what I am installing.
Do anyone know of a way to find out what the last install added to your system? Is there a log somewhere that lists this?
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