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Re: Package variant selection policy using meta packages



Quoting Andrei POPESCU (2012-12-22 13:39:07)
> On Sb, 22 dec 12, 13:17:32, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > Users tend to fall into one of three classes:
> >      A. Users that, if they have foo-dev installed, always also want
> >         foo-prof installed.
> >      B. Users that want to manually decide for what packages they want
> >         the -prof package and for what package not.
> >      C. Users who don’t want any -prof package around.
> > 
> > Currently, we only really help user B. If user A installs foo-dev there
> > is nothing that ensures that he gets foo-prof installed as well.
> 
> And a foo-dev Recommends: foo-prof is not suitable because?

Recommends are for relations suitable for most users, not some class of 
users.

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