Josselin Mouette wrote: > It should be the role of metapackages to handle which packages are > installed onto which desktop environment.
This actually depends how close a given desktop environment's definition of "desktop environment" is to common user expectation of a linux desktop. For example, none of the DE's include a print server, but a Debian desktop system should have one. > The gnome metapackage already pulls synaptic. If we decide one day to > replace it, it shouldn’t need two changes, one in gnome and one in > tasksel. I agree, there is no reason to pull in synaptic twice for gnome. -- see shy jo
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