On 2/27/11, Marco Cornolti <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/02/2011 20:12, Sune Vuorela wrote: >> well.. who needs a library? the apps dependencies should be enough to >> keep things updated. > > That's right. So are meta-packages only needed when there is the need of > installing multiple packages?
They're useful when the user wants to always have the latest version. I have emacs23, and the emacs metapackage to automatically replace it when emacs24 comes out. But when a new version of a library comes out I don't care to install it unless I have an application that uses it, so I want to wait for some app's dependency to pull it in. (If I'm *writing* an application that I want to use the latest version, I'll have libfoo-dev installed anyway.) -PJ -- -PJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
