On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 16:35, Sean Middleditch wrote: > That might be confusing, as there is an upstream package called > 'gnome-desktop' (and indeed, Debian has some libgnome-desktop and > gnome-desktop-* packages).
Right. > This may be a dumb (and quite off-topic) question, but why do you need > virtual packages when we have a tasks system? Well, basically the tasks people didn't want to maintain the detailed list of packages.

