On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:29:47PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > I guess that they should be either "Recommends", or "Suggests", but not > > > "Depends", right? (So that one can deinstall a single package without > > > deleting all others) > > > > I'd say the packages you want to pull with your metapackage need to be in > > "Depends". > > There are several discussions on Debian mailing lists all with the > conclusion that Depends are wrong for metapackages. Please use > Recommends.
Well, the very first thing I do on a new Debian system is this: echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/75recommends i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends. In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful, I guess. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
