On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:59:41PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 13:57, Joey Hess wrote:
> > In the head of this thread, I posted a message listing several problems
> > with metapackages. All of these problems may not apply to all
> > metapackages at all times, but in sum they all apply in general and are
> > a good reason not to use metapackages for tasks and to limit the breadth
> > of metapackages in Debian.

> * "Clogging Britney" is subjective.

Having the metapackage kicked out of testing and having the release team
refuse to help you get it back into the release because you ignored their
recommendations is, however, not subjective.

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