Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> writes: > IMO, metapackages should "depend" on the absolutely required stuff (and many > times that will be the empty set), "recommend" the rest, and maybe even > "suggest" fringe packages. This achieves maximum usability for more > usecases, and malfunctions only in the unsupported case of "no install > recommends by default" -- you should skip recommends always in a > case-by-case basis.
That also achives maximum annoyance, because if I want the full platform, I'll have to go recommends/suggest hunting. (No, I'm *not* going to turn on install-recommends.) > OTOH, metapackages from hell (like gnome or kde-full) based on Depends > require me to select them, go to the "will install these" screen, deselect > the meta package, and go over the list manually installing whatever isn't > going to be useless/unwelcome for my specific case. And I will never notice > if the metapackage changes its dependency tree later on. You could script all that, and keep your local list up-to-date with about ~10 minutes of work. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zk76wk3o.fsf@algernon.balabit