Ben Armstrong wrote: > This property of metapackages has always irked me. If I install > gnome and then remove gnome-games, I won't automatically benefit in > the next release from any other goodies the gnome maintainers have > added to "gnome" package. Amen brother. Why aren't metapackages using Recommends instead of Depends? It seems like that would solve this, at least for us aptitude users. brian