On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 03:35:19PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > This property of metapackages has always irked me. If I install gnome > and then remove gnome-games, I won't automatically benefit in the next > release from any other goodies the gnome maintainers have added to > "gnome" package.
There was a similar problem with task- metapackages in potato -- if any package in the task became unreleasable, the whole task would too. We fixed this by moving from metapackages to fields in the Packages.gz file. There's no reason why a similar solution can't be used to achieve the sort of behaviour you want. In fact, the debtags "Tag:" fields may already be suitable for that. Cheers, aj
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