Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> writes: > Well, I have a personal "thing" about this - it strikes me as quirky to > not have a Depends, since those metapackages, without all of them, is > technically not satisfied.
I don't understand this argument. > I'd prefer to see metapackages use Recommends for the things that > should (but don't *have* to be) installed, and Depends for the things > that the metapackage is there for. There are no things "that the metapackage is for": The package just collects a number of programs that belong to the same author and are usually installed together. There is no particular requirement to have any of them installed; therefor I don't want to make any single program as "Depend". Other packages will never depend on this metapackage; they will rather depend on the individual programs. Or am I abusing the metapackage system here? 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/ytz3808gxru....@news.ole.ath.cx
