Re: enhancing apt-get for meta packages

To: Deity Creation Team <deity@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: enhancing apt-get for meta packages
From: "Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
Date: 20 Jul 1999 20:38:36 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 87d7xnkvyr.fsf@haitech.martin.home>
In-reply-to: Jason Gunthorpe's message of "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:54:06 -0600 (MDT)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.990720114941.24095A-100000@Wakko.deltatee.com>

>> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca> wrote:

Jason> It would be better to give the package itself a 'task' flag
Jason> which would prevent APT from ever installing it, but would
Jason> allow it to go through and select it's dependencies for
Jason> installation.

Jason> If you can get approval of the policy group then I can add a
Jason> feature like this for you.

OK. I will mail -policy about this. Let's if I can get this going.

Thanks,
	Martin

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