Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?
Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:11:12PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> writes:
>> > A metapackage should not be used as a bat to beat users into installing
>> > ALL of something. It should be a tool to help users install all of
>> > something if they wish, but users should still have as much control as
>> > is reasonable to pick and choose a partial subset if it works for them.
>>
>> Couldn't that be carved in stone^UPolicy?
>
> I admit I have not verified policy whether it is that drastically but
> the paragraph above is what I understood as rough consensus in all
> discussion about this.
It seems that some ftp-masters have a different opinion about this. And
the thread shows, that there are others that won't agree here (see the
xfce argumentation).
Cheers
Ole
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