Re: Some thoughts on a clean Woody install
Anthony Towns wrote:
> 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?
Well we either use the metapackage or we list all of kde in the desktop
task manually. (Reintroducing now? IIRC the kde metapackage was in there
from the beginning.)
calc says he's going to fix it.
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