Re: Recommends for metapackages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

]] Russ Allbery 

> I would usually just install gnome-core once on a new system, unmarkauto
> the leaf packages, and then purge gnome-core and network-manager.
> Unfortunately, the drawback of that is that if gnome-core later adds new
> packages, I don't pick them up by default.

Due to those drawbacks, I've wondered why people don't just disable
NetworkManager on their system instead of bothering with workarounds
like the above or dpkg -P --force-depends and similar.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are