On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:43:13 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO metapackages are a simple, established and widely accepted technique > which we can easily relay on. I would prefer testing other things in > parallel and see how they might work. As long as we do not have > something that has important advantages over metapackages while having > no important drawback I'd like stick to established things. Or did > I missunderstood your mail?
As a technology I have no problem with metapackages. It is, as you say, proven, and the only "bug" that existed has been solved by softening Depends to Recommends. I was merely furthering my social argument. Who is best situated to decide which divisions make sense to the users? The developers, or the users themselves? Ben -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [email protected] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [email protected] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
