On Ma, 22 apr 14, 23:56:00, Tom Furie wrote: > > Indeed. Anything that isn't core functionality should at most be a > Recommends relation and much of what is in a meta-package could probably > even be a Suggests relation.
Suggests are not installed by default, so their practical use is restricted to, well, suggestions :) ... except that since 0.8.15.3 APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant is 'true' :( Since I was digging through apt's changelog I also found out the special handling of packages in section 'metapackages' is enabled since 0.7.26~exp6 (squeeze already has 0.8.10.3). This means the change is older than I thought, but on the other hand a package need not necessarily be in section 'metapackages'. $ aptitude search ~smetapackages | wc -l 51 Of these I could spot a few that are actually transitional packages. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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