On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:15:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I do feel KDE should be easier to install. The "kde" meta package
> > (source package meta-kde) is not yet in Woody, I really hope it will
> > make it, I'll check out it's bugreports etc.
> It's not? This has to go in; it's release critical. Tasksel uses this to
> select the kde packages for the desktop task.
Gag, gag, gag. Metapackages are _bad_, okay? Horrible, sucky _evil_
things. Avoiding them was why we went to all the trouble of using the Task:
header and all the other stuff. Why're we reintroducing the same nonsense
now?
Cheers,
aj
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