Re: How to create a metapackage
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:29:47PM +0200, humbert.olivier.1@free.fr wrote:
> > >
> > > I guess that they should be either "Recommends", or "Suggests", but not
> > > "Depends", right? (So that one can deinstall a single package without
> > > deleting all others)
> >
> > I'd say the packages you want to pull with your metapackage need to be in "Depends".
>
> There are several discussions on Debian mailing lists all with the
> conclusion that Depends are wrong for metapackages. Please use
> Recommends.
Well, the very first thing I do on a new Debian system is this:
echo 'APT::Install-Recommends "0";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/75recommends
i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends.
In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful,
I guess.
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