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Re: Source dependencies: are we ready?



Previously Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> BTW, what do you people think of the metapackage idea (see the new Policy
> draft thread)?

It's bad and shouldn't be handled by dpkg. There is an excellent
strategy for implementing this in frontends, see the Apt UI design for
example. In fact libapt already implements most of it iirc and somebody
just needs to finish a complete frontend for apt.

Wichert.

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