Re: Bug#99835: seemingly useless and ill-conceived "meta" packages
Anton Zinoviev <anton@lmlserver.bas.bg> writes:
AZ> On 3.VI.2001 at 19:04 Joey Hess wrote:
JH> What is the purpose of these packages?
AZ>
AZ> meta-magicfilter installs magicfilter and all filters it need.
AZ> Magicfilter is usable without them installed and thats why it doesn't
AZ> require them.
This sounds like a wonderful use of the "recommends" or "suggests"
relationship between magicfilter and its auxiliary programs. See
section 7.2 of the policy manual. In particular:
Suggests:
This is used to declare that one package may be more useful
with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging
system and the user that the listed packages are related to
this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that
installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable.
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David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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