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Re: Bug#106566: ITP: apt-howto -- a detailed manual for apt features



On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:08:31PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > Both the -br and the -en packages?
> > 
> > Might would a meta-package depend on both?  Why would anyone wany
> > both versions?  Seems to me people will want one or the other?
> yeah, Matt Zimmerman pointed this out... I'll make it depend on
> one or other... (apt-howto-pt | apt-howto-en)

Why the hell do you need a metapackage at all?  doc-linux-* don't need a
metapackage and I'm pretty sure I could install any and every language I
feel would be useful.  How is this different?  Overcomplicating things
isn't necessary and would just add to the size of Packages.gz, which is
massive already and growing every day.

-- 
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@d2dc.net>                   Free software developer

* cesarb wonders if in less than a week Carmack will end up receiving in
  e-mail a courtesy copy of a version of the Quake source which is four
  times faster than what went out of his virtual hands...

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