On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:04:05PM +0100, Michel D?nzer wrote: > On Don, 2002-11-28 at 18:38, Marcus Crafter wrote: > > Ok, I built and uploaded the meta themes package, but the > > package was rejected. After speaking with James I learn't that > > you can actually do a: > > > > $> apt-get install gtk2-engines-* > > > > to install all available gtk2 themes. > > > > Since this feature is available in apt-get and also due to some > > other issues (general meta package problems and testing) the > > admins decided not to let the package through to the archive. > > > > So instead, we all get to learn something new about apt-get :) > > While this is indeed a nice feature, I think a metapackage would still > be useful to automatically pick up new themes.
i agree for the same reasons. > I think I understand the problem with testing, what problems would there be with testing? > but maybe it could be hosted somewhere outside of the official > archive? even though a metapackage would be a good idea, i think it might be too much hassle to host outside of the debian archive, especially since it is such a small package. -- gram
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