On 24 August 2010 16:15, David Virebayre <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/8/24 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <[email protected]>: > >> What do you mean by "metapackages"? > > Metapackage are packages of packages, they don't provide something by > themselves, but they have a dependency list so that a set of package > can be installed together. > > For example, on ubuntu, installing "build-essentials" will pull gcc, > make, autoconf, etc from the repositories. > > Another example would be the haskell platform, on debian it's a > metapackage that depends on all the individual packages of libraries > and tools that belong to the platform.
That's what I thought; I don't see how this makes dealing with Haskell packages any easier (unless you want to specifically install the Haskell Platform rather than the individual libraries/tools you want/need, which is my preference). -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic [email protected] IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
