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