Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?
Ole Streicher wrote:
> Other packages will never depend on this metapackage; they will rather
> depend on the individual programs.
Other packages *in Debian* will not. I actually build a pile of
personal metapackages to set up systems, and many of their dependencies
are metapackages. If metapackages start using Recommends, that would be
quite inconvenient, as it would mean that I'd have to manually copy the
list of dependencies into my metapackage (and update it if the set of
needed packages changes) rather than just depending on the metapackage.
- Josh Triplett
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