Re: duplicates in the archive

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"):
> Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit : 
> > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case?  It seems to perfectly
> > match the "makes life easier for <common but not universal use-case
> > XXX>" scenario you describe.
> 
> Recommends is wrong for metapackages because it gets upgrades very
> wrong. This is why it is used very marginally.

Could you please explain this in more detail in the specific case of
gnome-core and network-manager ?  I'm not sure I understand the
problem.

Thanks,
Ian.