On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 08:08 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote:
[...]
> If you use Depends, the user has two choices, install everything, or not
> use the metapackage.
>
> Take the metapackage games-finest. If all of those packages were
> Depends instead of Recommends, you could not remove a small handful of
> the larger games (e.g. wesnoth, at 153M) without marking every single
> game you wanted to keep as "manual" and then removing the metapackage.
> You then lose the ability to remove all of those games simply by
> removing the metapackage.
[...]
Installation of a package from the 'metapackages' section does *not*
mark its dependencies as automatically installed.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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