Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > On 28/07/15 13:08, Marvin Renich wrote: >> There is no downside to using Recommends and no upside to using Depends >> for metapackages. > > I don't think it's that simple; it comes down to a question of what the > metapackage "means", which is a design question for its maintainer. > > For metapackages that are about getting a broad range of options, I > think Recommends make sense, for the reasons you gave. I agree that > games-finest is in this category: installing games-finest should pull in > "a selection of outstanding Debian games", but if you don't like > openarena and you remove it, you still have what it says in the > package's Description.
My metapackages would fall into that category: They shall just provide a structured view for the end user to other packages: They mean f.e. "Install the packages from the 'astromatic' collection" -- it is no mistake to review this list and unselect the package that are not needed. So, I would still stick with Recommends. Thank you, Best regards Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ytz7fpkgy4m....@news.ole.ath.cx
