Is the Universe and Main distinction meaningful in Trisquel?
I noticed that many of the recommended packages depend on Universe packages. Presumably, the distinction between Universe and Main is an artifact of Ubuntu or not as clear as should be simply because the work to do that hasn't been put in yet (which is fine, there's only so much a limited effort can do).
Actually, I was glad to see that packages were separated between main and universe in Trisquel 7, as this is not the case in Trisquel 6, and I believe it is an important and significant distinction. My understanding is that Canonical only supports main packages for 5 years, and lets the community take care of the packages in universe. So as far as security is concerned, there is no guarantee that packages from the universe branch will be patched or supported adequately, whereas you have that 5-year guarantee for packages from main. Someone please correct me if I am mistaken.
Case in point, the owncloud team recently asked Ubuntu maintainers to remove owncloud from the Ubuntu repositories, as it was a universe package and nobody was maintaining it. The owncloud team didn't want people to run and insecure version, when the latest stable version is available through a ppa.