package group "body useful without the head"?

[Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>]

Odd, what use is having these,
# dpkg -l|perl -awlne 'print $F[1] if /openoff/'
openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-java-common
openoffice.org-l10n-en-us
openoffice.org-l10n-zh-tw
openoffice.org-math
if one still needs to do
# apt-get install openoffice.org
to get openoffice.org-writer etc. to make a usable setup?
Shouldn't dependencies be tightened up, or is my installed set above
useful?
You see I use http:///jidanni.org/comp/debian/apt-offline/index_en.html
thus cannot download without planning ahead.